THE Conservative Party candidate who failed to unseat Labour's Jim Murphy at the 2010 General Election has bounced back to secure consultancy contracts worth around £130,000 from a Pakistani delegation that visited Scotland last week.
Richard Cook lost to the shadow defence secretary in East Renfrewshire even though it was one of the Tories' top targets.
Now he is stepping away from politics and setting up new venture, Cook Consulting, after securing four research contracts in Pakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, looking into household rubbish, sewage and desalination.
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