Matt Baker (LP)
In 2015 Bristol Mayor George Ferguson appointed Matt Baker as his campaign manager. Baker was the right-hand man to Labour Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk until July 2015. [1]
In June 2015 it was reported that "Matt Baker, the right hand man of Rochdale MP, Simon Danczuk over the past eight years is leaving his job with Mr Danczuk...Mr Baker arrived on the Rochdale political scene in 2007 after Mr Danczuk had been selected as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Rochdale in the 2010 General Election.As Mr Danczuk’s campaign organiser in both the 2010 and 2015 General Elections.. An accomplished writer, Mr Baker is credited as co-author of a book with Mr Danczuk, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith, however, it was in fact Mr Baker who researched and wrote the book. Mr Baker’s methods have at times been controversial, during the 2010 election campaign he was exposed as having a number of accounts on internet forums and using those accounts to support Mr Danczuk and attack his opponents and critics." [2]
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