Mr Baker stood for the Aberdeen North constituency in the recent UK elections losing heavily to to Kirsty Blackman of the SNP.
He then stood for the deputy leadership of the Scottish branch of the Labour Party and lost that to Alex Rowley, although we do not know by how much, given Labour's policy of hiding their membership numbers.
It seems not to have been his year for winning stuff.
Mr Baker has held a variety of posts in the Labour Party in Scotland. He was for a while their Justice Spokesman. A job he was surely born for, as this clip shows.
