Eric Fletcher

Nationality

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

1903

Date of Death

1990

Political
Preference

Labour Party

(Baron) Eric Fletcher was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He studied at the University of London and became a solicitor specialized in internal law. In 1945, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Islington East and served from 1964 to 1966 as Minister without Portfolio in Harold Wilson’s first government. In 1951 he was a substitute member of the Consultative Assembly of the Congress of Europe. His name was suggested by Kenneth Grubb for participation in both the CCIA and later in ECEC, but he never joined these two as a full member, although he did endorse the ‘First Statement on European Issues’ by ECEC. He described the Amsterdam Assembly of 1948, which he attended, as ‘the most notable event in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation’.