Harold Benjamin Soref (18 December 1916—14 March 1993) was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for Ormskirk, Lancashire, first elected at the 1970 general election. He subsequently lost the seat to Labour in February 1974. Soref was a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club. Early life Harold Soref was the son of Paul Soref, a merchant shipper of Romanian Jewish origin, and his wife Zelma (née Goodman), who lived in Hampstead, north west London. Harold was educated at Hall School, Hampstead, and St. Paul's School, Hammersmith, before going up to Queen's College, Oxford. In World War II, he served with the Royal Scots regiment, and with the Intelligence Corps from 1940 to 1946. Political career Soref had an early interest in colonial affairs, and was an elected delegate, in 1937, to the first All-British Africa Conference at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia, held with the intention of forming the Africa Defence Federation. He was a founder member of the Conservative Commonwealth Council, and a member of the governing council of the Anglo-Rhodesian Society, and the Anglo-Zanzibar Society. Soref was also a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and a standard bearer at the BUF's 1934 Olympia meeting. In 1951, he was the Conservative Party's prospective parliamentary candidate in Dudley, and again in 1955, for Rugby; he was unsuccessful on both occasions. Soref was elected as the Conservative MP for Ormskirk in 1970 but, as it was a marginal constituency, and following boundary changes, he lost it in 1974 to Labour's Robert Kilroy-Silk. Monday Club Soref was an early member (in 1963) of the Conservative Monday Club, a right-wing grouping in the party. He served a term as its National Vice-Chairman, and was for some time a very active Chairman of their Africa and Rhodesia study groups and policy committees. He was several times a member of the club's executive council, including from 1970 to 1975. In July 1972, Soref had discussions, on behalf of the Monday Club, with the Home Office, on the 1,500 Trotskyists camping in Essex, which included groups from North America. They were, he said, being given instruction in urban guerrilla warfare. Soref and Patrick Wall, a fellow MP, also raised the issue of 'educational kits' being distributed to secondary schools, which were said to contain information on guerrilla warfare tactics in Southern Africa. They described the kits as "subversive