Clive Soley, Baron Soley

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Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley (born 7 May 1939) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

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 is currently Campaign Director of Future Heathrow, an organisation dedicated to the expansion of Heathrow.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Frank Tomney
Member of Parliament for Hammersmith North
19791983
Succeeded by
new constituency
Preceded by
new constituency
Member of Parliament for Hammersmith
19831997
Succeeded by
constituency abolished
Preceded by
new constituency
Member of Parliament for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
19972005
Succeeded by
Andrew Slaughter
Political offices
Preceded by
Doug Hoyle
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
1997–2001
Succeeded by
Jean Corston