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
Communist propaganda". Soref condemned
Idi Amin's decision to expel Ugandan Asians with British passports as "discriminatory racialism". He was a leading speaker at the Monday Club's "Halt Immigration Now" rally in
Westminster Central Hall the same year, when a resolution was passed calling on the government to halt all immigration, repeal the
Race Relations Act (1968), and start a full repatriation scheme. On 30 September 1972, the
Daily Telegraph remarked that "Mr. Harold Soref is nothing if not consistent", commenting that when an all-party delegation began a tour of
Red China, he left defiantly for
Taiwan. In October 1972, Soref said that the
Irish Republican Army (IRA) were planning a direct assault in England, and that the IRA were receiving weapons from
Libya, as well as detailing their contacts with other terrorist movements. In August 1973, in the
House of Commons, Soref told the
Minister of Agriculture that it was "preposterous" that British housewives should have to pay high prices for beef when there were plentiful supplies available in Rhodesia. In September, he protested to Sir
Alec Douglas-Home that
Herbert Chitepo, whom Soref described as a "terrorist", had received a British passport 'in error', and said that London was being turned into an 'open house' for about 50 revolutionary movements. In 1973, Soref successfully fought the Home Office deportation order against New Zealander Peter Wildermoth, and his intercessions, in December 1973, secured the freedom of Gerald Hawksworth, who was imprisoned in
Tanzania after being kidnapped by the
Zimbabwe African National Union. He subsequently gave a Monday Club dinner at
Westminster Palace to celebrate Hawksworth's release. In 1974, Soref was appointed as the Monday Club's vice-chairman, and spoke at
Oxford University in May that year. He had a police escort into the building, but gangs of left-wing students with masked faces howling "Death to Soref" forced their way into the hall; he was forced to escape violence down a back staircase and over a six-foot wall, with his pursuers close behind, jumping onto the back of his car as it drew away. Later that night, the Chairman of the Oxford University Monday Club, Andrew Bell, the son of MP
Ronald Bell, had his bedroom window smashed by hand-thrown missiles. Soref, as Chairman of the club's
Africa Group, often had letters published in the press criticising Labour politician
James Callaghan's "biased attitudes on
Rhodesia where communist-supported guerillas were in action". He had also said that "the Secretary of State during his recent safari displayed his dedication to '
Black Power'". Another of his protests was to
Lord Aylestone of the
Independent Broadcasting Authority over the
Weekend World television programme about
Rhodesia which, he said, "gave more support to terrorists than to their victims." Soref was an outspoken critic of the IRA, and issued a press statement on behalf of the Monday Club in November 1974 calling for
capital punishment "for traitors and those engaged in civil war". The previous month, gunmen shot at a London businessman's chauffeur-driven car close to Soref's residence, and
Scotland Yard were convinced that it was mistaken identity and the work of the IRA, because of the striking resemblance between the victim, who later died, and Soref. The shooting had taken place at the time Soref normally arrived home, but he had been delayed that night. Both the victim and Soref had similar cars. Later, Soref received an anonymous telephone call saying that the shots were meant for him. On 26 January 1981, Soref presided at the Monday Club's Africa Group Dinner at
St Stephen's Club,
Westminster, when the MP
Nicholas Winterton was the guest of honour. ==Business career==