Clive Lewis (politician)

Clive Lewis
Official portrait, 2024
Shadow Minister for Sustainable Economics
In office
12 January 2018 – 9 April 2020
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
In office
6 October 2016 – 8 February 2017
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byJon Trickett[a]
Succeeded byRebecca Long-Bailey
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
In office
27 June 2016 – 6 October 2016
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byEmily Thornberry
Succeeded byNia Griffith
Member of Parliament
for Norwich South
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded bySimon Wright
Majority13,239 (29.3%)
Personal details
Born
Clive Anthony Lewis

(1971-09-11) 11 September 1971 (age 53)
London, England
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations
Socialist Campaign Group
Spouse
Katy Steel
(m. 2017)
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Bradford
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
WebsiteOfficial website
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch/serviceBritish Army (Territorial Army)
Years of service2006–2009
RankCaptain, (Territorial Army)
Unit7th Battalion, The Rifles
Battles/warsOperation Herrick

Clive Anthony Lewis (born 11 September 1971) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South since 2015.[1] Lewis was a candidate for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.[2]

He previously served as vice-president of the National Union of Students, worked as a TV reporter for BBC News and served as an infantry officer with the Army Reserve. Lewis served a three-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009.

Lewis became shadow defence secretary in June 2016, and shadow business secretary in October 2016. Lewis left the Shadow Cabinet in 2017 in protest over the Labour Party's decision to whip its MPs into voting to trigger Article 50, but re-joined the front bench a year later as shadow minister for sustainable economics. He stood in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, but did not receive the required 22 parliamentarian nominations, and withdrew.

Lewis has written extensively about the climate crisis, race, and democracy. He has argued that Britain is built on forgetting its "imperial history", stating that this "forgetting" is crucial to the "British state – the Union, an unwritten constitution, and even our voting system".[3]


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  1. ^ "Norwich South Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015.
  2. ^ Rodgers, Sienna (3 February 2022). "Revealed: 'New Left' group sparks debate over divisions among left MPs". LabourList. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  3. ^ MP, Clive Lewis (22 December 2023). "'A Disunited Kingdom? Britain is Built on Forgetting Our Imperial History'". Byline Times. Retrieved 28 May 2024.