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| The Right HonourableThe Lord SoleyPC | |
|---|---|
 Lord Soley in 2019 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 29 June 2005 | |
| Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |
| In office 1 May 1997 – 11 July 2001 | |
| Leader | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Doug Hoyle |
| Succeeded by | Jean Corston |
| Member of Parliament for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith (1983–1997) Hammersmith North (1979–1983) | |
| In office 3 May 1979 – 11 April 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Frank Tomney |
| Succeeded by | Andy Slaughter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-05-07) 7 May 1939 (age 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton, University of Strathclyde |
Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley (born 7 May 1939) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005, and has since then served as a Member of the House of Lords.
Early life
He went to Downshall Secondary Modern School (eventually ended up as Seven Kings High School) on Aldborough Road in Seven Kings near Ilford, then Newbattle Adult Education College in Newbattle, Midlothian, from 1961–3. He did RAF National Service from 1959–61. He went to the University of Strathclyde, where he gained a BA in Politics and Psychology in 1968, then the University of Southampton, where he gained a Diploma in Applied Social Studies in 1970. He was a British Council Officer from 1968–9, then a Probation Officer from 1970–9 for the Inner London Probation Service. He was a councillor on Hammersmith Council from 1974 to 1978.
Parliamentary career
Soley was a Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1979, first for the constituency of Hammersmith North, then Hammersmith and finally Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush from 1997 to 2005. In 1981, he was a member of the anti-nuclear Labour Party Defence Study Group and was Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1997 to 2001. In 2003, he voted in favor of the government's decision to engage in military action against Iraq despite the absence of convincing evidence that Iraq still had an active WMD programme.
In 2005, it was announced that he would be given a life peerage, and on 29 June 2005 he was created Baron Soley, of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He was from 2005 to 2010 Campaign Director of Future Heathrow, an organisation dedicated to the expansion of Heathrow. He was from 2004 to 2016, chair of the trustees of Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, now renamed the Mary Seacole Trust, which worked for the erection of the statue of Mary Seacole in the grounds of St Thomas's Hospital in London.
Personal life
Soley has a son and daughter. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
References
- Rhiannon Vickers (30 September 2011). The Labour Party and the World - Volume 2: Labour's Foreign Policy since 1951. Manchester University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84779-595-3.
- Zaid Al-Ali (23 January 2003). on the crisis in Iraq. Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq.
- "No. 57692". The London Gazette. 4 July 2005. p. 8639.
- http://www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/
- "National Secular Society Honorary Associates". National Secular Society. Retrieved 27 July 2019
External links
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Voting record at PublicWhip.org
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
- Hammersmith & Fulham Labour Party
- Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle – Clive Soley
- Lord Soley of Hammersmith Open Rights Group
- BBC Politics profile, 2002
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byFrank Tomney | Member of Parliament for Hammersmith North 1979–1983 |
Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Hammersmith 1983–1997 |
Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush 1997–2005 |
Succeeded byAndy Slaughter |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded byDoug Hoyle | Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party 1997–2001 |
Succeeded byJean Corston |
| Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded byThe Lord Anderson of Swansea | Gentlemen Baron Soley |
Followed byThe Lord Goodlad |
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