Matt O'Connor

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Matt O'Connor (born Manchester 1967) is the founder of the fathers' rights group Fathers 4 Justice. Denied access to his children by the Family Courts, O’Connor created Fathers 4 Justice to demand reform of the family courts and government policy on parental access.

O’Connor has three boys, Daniel aged 10 and Alexander aged nine from his previous marriage and Archie, aged one, with his current partner Nadine.

In a GQ magazine feature on O'Connor in June 2006, Will Self said of him, "He is fiercely intelligent, charmingly foul-mouthed and has a fantastic turn of phrase…few could equal O'Connor when it comes to taking a conversational thread, yanking, unravelling and generally running with it.”

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London Mayor campaign

In January 2008, Matt O'Connor was selected by the English Democrats as the Mayoral Candidate for the May 2008 Elections. He was successful in an internal selection process.

However with one week to go before the election, on the 25th of April O'Connor announced to the BBC and Vanessa Feltz that he had decided to pull out the of the Mayor race citing lack of media coverage[1].

Author

  • "Fathers 4 Justice; The Inside Story" 2007[2]

References

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7366662.stm Matt O'Connor resigns from Mayoral race
  2. ^ http://www.itv.com/Lifestyle/ThisMorning/features/FathersForJustice/default.html
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Candidates in the 2008 London mayoral election

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