Clive Soley

Clive Stafford Soley, Baron Soley (born 7 May 1939), is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005 and later as a Member of the House of Lords until 2023. He attended Seven Kings High School, RAF National Service, and pursued higher education at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Southampton. Soley worked as a Probation Officer before entering local government, serving on Hammersmith Council from 1974 to 1978.

In his parliamentary career, he represented the constituencies of Hammersmith North, Hammersmith, and Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. He was part of the anti-nuclear Labour Party Defence Study Group in 1981 and chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1997 to 2001. Notably, he voted in favour of military action against Iraq in 2003.

After leaving parliament, Soley became Campaign Director of Future Heathrow (2005–2010) and chair of the trustees of the Mary Seacole Trust (2004–2016), which sought to erect a statue of Mary Seacole. He was granted a life peerage in 2005, becoming Baron Soley.

Soley has a son and daughter and is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.