Fletcher worked in the
House of Lords as the chief of staff to the
prime minister's trade envoy to
Uganda and
Rwanda,
Dolar Popat, At the
2015 general election he stood in the
Doncaster North constituency against
Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband.
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. 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. He gained 274 votes. Fletcher was chosen as the candidate for
Bolsover in the
2019 general election. He defeated incumbent Labour politician
Dennis Skinner, who had held the seat since the
1970 general election. After
Harold Neal and Skinner, Fletcher was only the third person to serve as MP for Bolsover since it was first contested in
1950. 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. Fletcher was involved in efforts to reopen a disused railway line in
Ashfield District, a campaign to restore post-16 education to Bolsover, and an endeavour to make major improvements to Junction 28 of the M1. Fletcher resigned from his position as
parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy following the
Chris Pincher scandal, stating in his resignation letter that he was the MP who reported
Pincher to the
chief whip,
Chris Heaton-Harris. On 26 September 2022, Fletcher was appointed PPS to
Kwasi Kwarteng, the new
Chancellor of the Exchequer under
Prime Minister Liz Truss. In 2023 he became PPS to
Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor to Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak. In November 2023, he joined the front benches when he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip. At the
2024 general election, Fletcher lost his seat to Labour candidate
Natalie Fleet. ==Political views==