He served as a councillor on Newcastle City Council from 1952, and chaired the North-Eastern Association for the Arts.
Fletcher unsuccessfully contested Middlesbrough West for the Labour Party at the 1959 general election.
[2] He was a member of the Tribune Group and was regarded as being broadly on the left of the Labour Party.
Fletcher's Labour successor after the resulting by-election was Ossie O'Brien, who was MP for just a matter of weeks before he lost to the Conservative Michael Fallon at the 1983 general election.
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