Luke Bozier

Luke Nicholas Cholerton-Bozier (commonly known as Luke Bozier) is a tech entrepreneur and former political campaigns manager.
Early life
According to an autobiographical post on his blog, entitled "Why I am Labour" (deleted when he quit the party to join the Conservatives), Bozier was born in Haverfordwest in Wales the son of a single mother. His father was Mark Bozier, guitarist with the punk rock band Picture Frame Seduction. When Bozier was 12 his family moved to Burton-on-Trent. In 1999 they moved to London to live on the Somerleyton Road Estate in Brixton. During this time he met Liliana (known as Lily), who he later married and is the mother of his two children.
Bozier's early working life included what he describes as a 'low level programming job' at a dotcom business and flipping burgers at McDonald's. He was also involved in a social enterprise project which made ICT learning materials available for free to young people in the developing world. Through this he was invited to attend a UN conference in Geneva in 2003, following which he became involved in a number of projects with government and non-governmental agencies.
Political career
Bozier was an e-campaigns manager for the Labour Party. Although he has presented this as being a "senior aide to the former prime minister" Tony Blair, Bozier in fact held a junior position at Labour’s headquarters at Millbank for just eight months. In November 2011 Bozier and a colleague, Alex Smith, published a book entitled “Labour’s business: Why Enterprise must be at the heart of Labour politics in the 21st century”, which set out to inform future work on how Labour could become the party of enterprise.
In January 2012 Bozier, who saw himself as a Blairite, defected to the Conservatives arguing that Labour was no longer a "party of aspiration". His announcement on Twitter, which included the phrase 'Statement to Follow' became the source of many jokes. Bozier himself later registered the domain name 'statementtofollow.com' in an attempt to wrest the joke back.
Menshn and hacking scandal
In June 2012 Bozier set up the social network Menshn with Conservative MP Louise Mensch. The aim of the service was to enable users to 'talk on topic', as the founders claimed that rivals such as Twitter were too unstructured. Following its launch Menshn became the centre of controversy over its poor security and failure to abide by privacy regulations.
On 10 December Bozier was arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children after his e-mails were hacked. The Daily Mail reported that Bozier posted explicit photos of himself on the classified adverts website Craigslist. Lousie Mensch announced that Bozier 'had left the company' as a result. Bozier issued a statement denying the charges against him and declaring his intention to clear his name. He was, he said, "co-operating fully and assisting (the police) in their enquiries.” In February 2013 Bozier released a series of postings on his personal blog stating that he believed he had been defamed by some reports of the allegations against him.

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