Neil Coyle

Neil Coyle
MP
Official Parliamentary portrait, June 2017
Member of Parliament
for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded by Simon Hughes
Majority 12,972 (22.1%)
Member of the Southwark London Borough Council
for Newington
In office
6 May 2010 – 22 March 2016
Preceded by James Gurling
Succeeded by James Coldwell
Personal details
Born (1978-12-30) 30 December 1978
Luton, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater University of Hull

Neil Coyle MP (born 30 December 1978) is a British Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, first elected at the 2015 general election.[1]

Coyle also served the constituency as a councillor, taking his place in the Newington ward in 2010. After his re-election as a councillor in 2014, Coyle became Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Southwark.

Alongside his role as trustee for a local mental health charity and the North Southwark Environment Trust, he is also a national policy and campaigns advisor on social care and tackling poverty. He has raised funds for the Evelina Children's Hospital and for a local Garden Farm.[2]

Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.[3] Following the May 2016 elections, he co-wrote an article with Jo Cox which said that they had "come to regret" that decision.[4]

On 3 December 2015, he received a death threat through Twitter after voting for military action against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria. Coyle received police protection.[5]

At the 2017 snap general election, Coyle was re-elected with an increased majority.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Bermondsey & Old Southwark Parliamentary constituency". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Neil Coyle profile". Labour Party. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Who nominated who for the 2015 Labour leadership election?". New Statesman. London. 15 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Cox, Jo; Coyle, Neil (6 May 2016). "We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Dearden, Lizzie (3 December 2015). "Labour MP Neil Coyle reports death threat over support for Syria air strikes to police". The Independent. London. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  6. ↑ Mason, Rowena; Elgot, Jessica (9 June 2017). "Jeremy Corbyn plans alternative Queen's speech challenging May". the Guardian.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Simon Hughes		 Member of Parliament
for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
2015–present		 Incumbent


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