10 Facts About Kat Fletcher

Kathryn "Kat" Jane Fletcher was born on 20 December 1979 and is a British Labour Party politician.

Kat Fletcher was previously president of the National Union of Students, between 2004 and 2006, the first to be elected from a political slate to the left of Labour Students.

Kat Fletcher later attended the University of Leeds where she studied Social Policy and Education.

Kat Fletcher was elected president in 2004 in an extremely close contest, which she won by only two votes after six rounds of transfers, having lost the 2003 election by only three votes to the incumbent candidate.

Kat Fletcher left the AWL before being elected president; during her first year in office, she disbanded CFE, as a result of reinstating free education policy.

Kat Fletcher stood as a Labour candidate at St George's ward in the London Borough of Islington March 2013 by-election, and was elected as a councillor with relative ease.

Kat Fletcher was re-elected in the 2014 Islington London Borough Council election.

Kat Fletcher acted as election agent for Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 general election, and was a part of Corbyn's campaign team when he won the 2015 Labour Party leadership election.

In 2015, Kat Fletcher was appointed the Deputy Mayor of Islington.

Kat Fletcher selected the Ben Kinsella Trust as her designated charity.