Colin Noble

Colin Lawrence Noble (born 10 June 1965) is a British politician of the Conservative Party. He served as leader of the Suffolk Conservatives group and Leader of Suffolk County Council from May 2015 to May 2018.

Political career
From 2011 to 2014, he was the Norfolk and Suffolk Area Chairman for the Conservative Party. In September 2017 Colin became the Deputy Chairman (Political) for the Eastern Region Conservatives.

Colin was elected to the Conservative Councillors Association board in January 2019 and served on it as the county representative till January 2020.

In March 2019 he became a board member and Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise, an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Transport.

County Council
He was first elected as a County Councillor at a by-election for the county electoral division of Row Heath in the constituency of West Suffolk on 8 June 2006.

He became Leader of the Conservative group on Suffolk County Council on 7 April 2015. At the annual general meeting of Suffolk County Council on 21 May 2015 he was duly elected Leader of Suffolk County Council. At the Suffolk County Council Conservative leadership election held on 11 May 2018 Colin was defeated by County Councillor Matthew Hicks and left office as Leader of Suffolk County Council on 24 May 2018 at its Annual General Meeting.

District Council
Colin was elected to Forest Heath District Council at the 2011 United Kingdom local elections as one of the two District Councillors for Lakenheath ward. He served until Forest Heath merged with St Edmundsbury in 2019, when he was unsuccessful in winning a seat in the new West Suffolk District Council. A by election victory in 2021 gave him a opportunity to return but he was again defeated in 2023.

Personal life
Colin Noble was born in Newmarket, West Suffolk. His father, Lawrence Noble, died in a road accident in Suffolk in May 2016.

He attended school at King's Ely in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He lives in the village of Lakenheath in north-west Suffolk.