Sam Swerling
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Sam Swerling (born 1940) is a right-wing British politician, who has been an active member of the Conservative Party since the 1960s, and stood as a parliamentary candidate for that party in the 1970s.
For over a decade he was a Conservative Councillor for Marylebone Ward on the Westminster City Council. He joined the Conservative Monday Club around 1966 and sat on many of their committees. He became editor of their magazine Monday World in the 1970s, and after retiring from that post remained on the editorial board. He was elected Club Chairman in April 1980, for three years. He remained an Executive Council member until 1993, and is still a Club member.
An ardent-anti-communist, Swerling was a natural supporter (though not a member) of the Western Goals Institute. On 25 September 1989, he was a guest at a Western Goals dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, chaired by Baron Sudeley, for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet. (Refer: The Daily Telegraph and The Times, Court & Social pages, 26 September, 1989).
Swerling is also the founder of the Philosophy Group. Since formation, he has served on the Conservative Democratic Alliance's steering committee, and has been a speaker at two of their Fringe Meetings held at Conservative Party Conferences at Bournemouth. He was a top table guest at the Traditional Britain Dinners, held on 7 November 2003 and 8 February 2006, where both times he moved the vote of thanks to the Guests-of-Honour.
Sam Swerling was for decades a partner in a firm of solicitors in the City of London, but today is only a consultant. He has been one of England's leading university law lecturers for the past 15 years, notably at the City University, London. In late 1993 he issued a libel writ against the Sunday Express newspaper for a defamatory article published that October, and received substantial out of court damages in settlement. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
Some Publications
- Swerling, Cllr. Sam, Who's Getting at Our Kids?, booklet published by The Monday Club, London, 1972
- Swerling, Sam, Some Uncivil Liberties, booklet published by The Monday Club, London, 1972.