[4][5] Fletcher worked in the House of Lords as the chief of staff to the prime minister's trade envoy to Uganda and Rwanda,[6] Dolar Popat,[5] as well as for the private healthcare company Synergix Health, founded by entrepreneur David Ravechio and Byju Thickar.

[8] Two years later, Fletcher was the Tory candidate in Stockton North, where he achieved an 8.5% increase in the Conservative vote share but lost nonetheless to Labour's Alex Cunningham.

[9] Fletcher also contested the local government elections in May 2018 at Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, coming second out of three Conservative candidates in the diverse three-member ward of Whitechapel.

Fletcher was also one of two former Tower Hamlets 2018 Conservative council candidates to win a marginal seat in the 2019 parliamentary election, the other being Gedling's Tom Randall, who had stood in Canary Wharf ward.

[11] Fletcher was involved in efforts to reopen a disused railway line in Ashfield District,[12] a campaign to restore post-16 education to Bolsover,[13] and an endeavour to make major improvements to Junction 28 of the M1.