Education
University of Southampton. University of Strathclyde.
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Clive Clive Soley, Baron Soley
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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 1961-1963. He did Royal Air Force National Service from 1959-1961. He went to the University of Strathclyde, where he gained a Bachelor 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 1968-1969, then a Probation Officer from 1970-1979 for the Inner London Probation Service.
He was a councillor on Hammersmith Council from 1974-1978. 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.
He is chair of the trustees of Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal.
Membership
48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament.
52nd United Kingdom Parliament. 53rd United Kingdom Parliament.
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Labour Party