Clive Lewis - MP for Norwich South
Clive Lewis - MP for Norwich South

Clive was first elected as MP for Norwich South in May 2015, and was successfully re-elected at both the June 2017 and December 2019 General Elections.

Clive has previously served on the Labour frontbench as Minister for Energy and Climate Change, and Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

You can learn more and keep up to date with Clive’s work in Norwich and Parliament on his Facebook page (you don’t need a Facebook account to be able to view this) or his website.

Born in London, Clive grew up on a council estate in Northampton. He attended a local comprehensive, becoming the first member of his family to attend university. He read economics at the University of Bradford before being elected student union president; and eventually Vice President of the National Union of Students (NUS).

Clive worked as a BBC TV News reporter for more than a decade: starting out as a BBC News Trainee and eventually becoming the BBC eastern region’s chief political reporter. He then worked in a non-editorial role at the BBC in Norwich. A former army reservist, he served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009.

Clive has lived in Norwich since 2001.

An associate governor of Thorpe St Andrew School, he’s also worked with schools and charities helping some of the city’s most disadvantaged children. Clive was also one of the last Labour Government’s National Black Role Models – working with young people across the UK.

Clive is passionate about Norwich’s developing scientific centres of excellence. He supports institutions such as the Norwich Research Park in its aim of developing the city’s future by creating and supporting new companies and jobs based on world-leading bioscience.

Wages in Norwich have historically lagged behind the national average and Clive has been at the centre of a broad coalition of trade unions, faith groups, businesses and academics working for a Living Wage across the city.

Clive is an ardent supporter of high quality public services and has led a high profile campaign against the privatisation of local NHS services. He’s also worked with local campaign groups and trade unions for public ownership of the failing privatised rail industry.

Clive has been a BBC TV News reporter for more than a decade starting out as a BBC News Trainee , eventually becoming the BBC eastern region’s chief political reporter. He currently works in a non-editorial role at the BBC in Norwich. A former army reservist, he served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2009. He opposed the Iraq War and supports nuclear disarmament

Born in London, Clive grew up on a council estate in Northampton. He attended a local comprehensive, becoming the first member of his family to attend university. He read economics at the University of Bradford before being elected student union president; and eventually Vice President of the National Union of Students (NUS).

Clive is also a proud supporter of Norwich City Football Club with a season ticket in the Barclay End.

Clive is on twitter at twitter.com/labourlewis and has his own website www.clivelewis.org

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