The Lord Soley | |
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 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |
| In office 3 May 1997 – 11 July 2001 | |
| Leader | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Doug Hoyle |
| Succeeded by | Jean Corston |
| Member of theHouse of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 29 June 2005 – 19 January 2023 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament forEaling, 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 86) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton,University of Strathclyde |
Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley (born 7 May 1939) is a BritishLabour Party politician. He served as aMember of Parliament (MP) from1979 to2005, and later as a Member of theHouse of Lords until 2023.
He went to Downshall Secondary Modern School (eventually ended up asSeven Kings High School) on Aldborough Road inSeven Kings nearIlford, thenNewbattle Adult Education College inNewbattle,Midlothian, from 1961 to 1963. He didRAF National Service from 1959 to 1961. He went to theUniversity of Strathclyde, where he gained a BA in Politics and Psychology in 1968, then theUniversity of Southampton, where he gained a Diploma in Applied Social Studies in 1970. He was aBritish Council Officer from 1968 to 1969, then aProbation Officer from 1970 to 1979 for theInner London Probation Service. He was a councillor onHammersmith Council from 1974 to 1978.
Soley was aLabour PartyMember of Parliament from 1979, first for the constituency ofHammersmith North, thenHammersmith and finallyEaling, Acton and Shepherd's Bush from 1997 to 2005. In 1981, he was a member of the anti-nuclearLabour Party Defence Study Group[1] and was chair of theParliamentary Labour Party from 1997 to 2001. In 2003, he voted in favour of the government's decision to engage in military action against Iraq.[2]
In 2005, it was announced that he would be given alife peerage, and on 29 June 2005 he was createdBaron Soley, ofHammersmith in theLondon Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.[3]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 thestatue of Mary Seacole in the grounds ofSt Thomas's Hospital in London.[4]
Soley has a son and daughter. He is an Honorary Associate of theNational Secular Society.[5]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forHammersmith North 1979–1983 | Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forHammersmith 1983–1997 | Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament forEaling, Acton and Shepherd's Bush 1997–2005 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party 1997–2001 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Gentlemen Baron Soley | Followed by |
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