Neil Coyle

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Neil Coyle
MP
Member of Parliament
for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded by Simon Hughes
Majority 4,489 (8.7%)
Member of the Southwark London Borough Council
for Newington
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by James Gurling
Personal details
Born (1978-12-30) 30 December 1978 (age 45)
Luton, United Kingdom
Political party Labour
Alma mater University of Hull

Neil Coyle (born 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 currently serves 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]

Neil Coyle has recently become a father.

References

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Bermondsey and Old Southwark

2015–present
Incumbent

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