[1] He is a left wing political strategist and campaigner who has held senior positions working for socialist politicians including the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn.
[2] In 1993, Fletcher was elected as a councillor at a by-election for the St Pancras ward on Camden London Borough Council, after the resignation of the incumbent Mary Helsdon.
[8] He worked in the office of three successive Labour Party leaders, having been the trade union liaison manager for Ed Miliband,[9] and then chief of staff for Jeremy Corbyn,[10] and advisor for planning election campaigns to Sir Keir Starmer.
He’s doing this terrible thing, this Fletcheresque [another reference to Simon Fletcher, Livingstone’s former chief of staff] nonsense of making these boutique offers to people."
[24] The Huffington Post reports that he lives in Gateshead with his partner Marie Nixon, a former member of Sunderland's Kenickie band.