Clive Lewis (politician)

Clive Lewis MP
Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Minister for Sustainable Economics
In office 12 January 2018 – 9 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
In office 6 October 2016 – 8 February 2017
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Jon Trickett[a]
Succeeded by	Rebecca Long-Bailey
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
In office 27 June 2016 – 6 October 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Emily Thornberry
Succeeded by	Nia Griffith
Member of Parliament for Norwich South
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Simon Wright
Majority	12,760 (24.7%)
Personal details
Born	Clive Anthony Lewis (1971-09-11) 11 September 1971 (age 52) London, England
Political party	Labour
Other political affiliations	Socialist Campaign Group
Spouse	Katy Steel ​ (m. 2017)​
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Bradford Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Website	Official website
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army (Territorial Army)
Years of service	2006–2009
Rank	Captain, (Territorial Army)
Unit	7th Battalion, The Rifles
Battles/wars	Operation 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 the 2015 general election.^[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 also served a three-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009.

He 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.

Lewis 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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