Clive Soley

The Right Honourable The Lord Soley PC
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 4 May 1979 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Frank Tomney
Succeeded by	Andy Slaughter
Personal details
Born	(1939-05-07) 7 May 1939
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.

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 1974–8.

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. He was Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1997 to 2001.

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.

Personal life

He has a son and daughter.

External links

• Profile at the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
• Articles authored at Journalisted
• Hammersmith & Fulham Labour Party
• Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle – Clive Soley
• Lord Soley of Hammersmith Open Rights Group
• BBC Politics profile, 2002