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The Right Honourable
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
MP
Speaker-elect of the House of Commons
Assumed office
4 November 2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byJohn Bercow
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Chairman of Ways and Means
In office
8 June 2010 – 4 November 2019
SpeakerJohn Bercow
Preceded bySir Alan Haselhurst
Succeeded byTBD
Member of Parliament
for Chorley
Assumed office
1 May 1997
Preceded byDen Dover
Majority7,512 (13.5%)
Personal details
Born (1957-06-10) 10 June 1957 (age 67)
Adlington, Lancashire, England, UK
Political partySpeaker (2019- )
Labour (1996-2019)
Spouse(s)Lynda Anne Fowler (divorced 1982)
Catherine Swindley
​
(m. 1993)​
Children2
Parent(s)Doug Hoyle
Pauline Spencer
OccupationPolitician

Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (born 10 June 1957)[1] is a British politician serving as the Speaker of the House of Commons since 2019, and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chorley since 1997. A member of the Labour Party, he was elected as Chairman of Ways and Means and Speaker of the House of Commons in a secret ballot on 4 November 2019.[2]

Early life

The son of former Labour MP Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle (born 1930) and Pauline Spencer (died 1991), Hoyle was born and raised in Adlington, Lancashire.[3][4] He went to Anderton County Primary School in Adlington and Lord's College in Bolton.[1][5] Prior to being elected as an MP, he ran his own textile and screen printing business.[3][6]

Political career

Councillor

In the local elections in 1980 in the United Kingdom, Hoyle was elected as the Labour Chorley Borough Councillor for the Adlington ward, defeating the sitting Conservative.[3] He would go on to be re-elected 4 times, and served as Deputy Leader from 1994 to 1997.[7] After being elected as an MP, he ended his time on the Council as the annual Mayor before stepping down at the local election of 1998.[8]

Member of Parliament

In February 1996, Hoyle was chosen to stand as the Labour candidate for the Chorley constituency at the 1997 General Election. He won the election with a majority of 7,625, becoming the first Labour MP for Chorley in eighteen years.[9][10]

In the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in August 1997, Hoyle asked for a new national children's hospital to be built as a memorial to her.[11] A few days later, Hoyle wrote to airport operator BAA, operators of London Heathrow Airport, urging them to change the airport's name to Diana, Princess of Wales Airport.[12] Neither proposal was carried out.

Hoyle served as a member of the Trade and Industry Committee (later the Business Committee) from 1998 to 2010 and as a member of the European Scrutiny Committee from 2005 to 2010.[1][13] He is currently the President of the All-Party British Gibraltar Group in Parliament (of which his father is the Treasurer) and a Vice Chair of the All-Party British Virgin Islands Group.[1][14]

Hoyle clashed with then Prime Minister Tony Blair over issues such as Gibraltar and tuition fees. Regarding those clashes, Hoyle would say "I'm not anti Tony; he made us electable and won three times. But there are principles and promises you don't break".[3] Hoyle is one of the few MPs who refused to say whether he voted Leave or Remain in the 2016 referendum.[15]

Chairman of Ways and Means

Hoyle was elected Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons on 8 June 2010,[1] the first time this appointment had been made by ballot of MPs, rather than by nomination of the Leader of the House.[2] He was appointed to the Privy Council in January 2013.[16]

On 20 March 2013, Hoyle won wide public acclaim for his handling of the Budget proceedings, which were frequently interrupted by jeering MPs.[17]

In February 2017, Hoyle told off SNP MPs for singing the European Anthem during the vote for the Brexit Bill in the House of Commons, stating that he does not want parliament to turn into a sing-off.[18] The same night, he had a clash with former Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, in a heated exchange over whether he had cut off an SNP MP while speaking.[19]

In March 2017, Hoyle called on social media companies to take swifter action to crack down on offensive posts, arguing it deters Jewish and Muslim women from becoming MPs.[20]

Hoyle was in the Speaker's Chair during the terrorist attack in Westminster on 22 March 2017, and the subsequent suspension and lockdown of the Commons.[21] Hoyle was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for parliamentary and political services.[22]

Speaker of the House of Commons

Main article: 2019 Speaker of the British House of Commons election

On 4 November 2019 Hoyle was the front runner in the first, second, and third ballot of the Speaker election.[23]

Personal life

Hoyle continues to live in Adlington.[24] He has been married twice and has had two daughters.[3] He was married from 1974 to Lynda Anne Fowler; they divorced in 1982.[8] In June 1993, Hoyle married Catherine Swindley, who succeeded him as the Labour Councillor for Adlington in May 1998.[7][8] He has also employed his wife as his part-time constituency secretary.[25] Hoyle's elder daughter, Emma, used to work at his constituency office, in which capacity she represented him at Chorley Borough Council.[25][26][27][28][29]

Hoyle and Conservative Maldon District Councillor Miriam Lewis also had a daughter, Natalie Lewis-Hoyle, who died in December 2017 at the age of 28.[30][31][32]

Away from politics, he is a supporter of his local football league team, Bolton Wanderers.[33]

Styles of address

  • 1957–1997: Mr Lindsay Harvey Hoyle
  • 1997–1997: Mr Lindsay Harvey Hoyle MP
  • 1997–2013: The Honourable Lindsay Harvey Hoyle MP
  • 2013–2017: The Right Honourable Lindsay Harvey Hoyle MP
  • 2017–: The Right Honourable Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle MP

From his father's ennoblement in 1997 he was entitled to the style of The Honourable. He gained the style of The Right Honourable when sworn into the privy council on 12 February 2013.[34]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e 'HOYLE, Hon. Lindsay (Harvey)', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 [1], accessed 31 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b Deputy Speakers: Hoyle, Primarolo and Evans elected BBC News, 8 June 2010
  3. ^ a b c d e White, Michael (22 March 2013). "Lindsay Hoyle, deputy speaker and budget star: 'Once a year, it's my day'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Person Page". The Peerage. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Home".
  6. ^ "Women shortlist veto". 4 January 1996. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Chorley-1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Person Page". The Peerage. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  9. ^ "UK Polling Report – Chorley". UK Polling Report (Anthony Wells). Retrieved 6 September 2008.
  10. ^ "Labour's Lindsay is election choice". 15 February 1996. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  11. ^ "MP calls for Diana children's hospital". The Bolton News. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Members of Parliament in Lancashire". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  13. ^ "Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  14. ^ "House of Commons – Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups [as at 2 January 2019]". Parliament.UK. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  15. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/04/speaker-house-commons-candidates/
  16. ^ "Downing street announcement". Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  17. ^ "Outspoken Deputy Speaker wins public acclaim". The Daily Telegraph.
  18. ^ "SNP MPs told off for singing Ode To Joy during Brexit Bill vote". The Daily Telegraph. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  19. ^ "There was a proper barney in Parliament over Brexit between SNP and Deputy Speaker". 7 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  20. ^ "Jewish and Muslim women MPs 'face most abuse'". BBC News. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  21. ^ Lindsay Hoyle (22 March 2017). "Sitting suspended". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. col. 902.
  22. ^ "No. 62150". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2017. p. N2.
  23. ^ Sparrow, Andrew; Sparrow, Andrew; O'Carroll, Lisa; Morris, Steven; McDonald, Henry (4 November 2019). "General election: Lindsay Hoyle extends lead in Speaker ballot, but still short of 50% of votes needed – live news". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  24. ^ "Chorley MP reveals modest expenses". Chorley Guardian. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  25. ^ a b Michael Wilkinson, Christopher Hope (29 June 2015). "One in five MPs employs a family member: the full list revealed". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  26. ^ "General election 2017: Chorley holds onto Labour's Lindsay Hoyle". Chorley Guardian. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  27. ^ "Outrage at ban threat on MP family workers". Lancashire Evening Post. 1 February 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  28. ^ "Agenda item – Chorley Borough Council Issues". Chorley Borough Council. 11 October 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  29. ^ "Printed minutes 12th-Jul-2007 19.00 Chorley East Community Forum" (PDF). Chorley Borough Council. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  30. ^ "Commons deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle 'devastated' by daughter's death". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  31. ^ "Commons Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle Mourns After Daughter Natalie Lewis-Hoyle Dies Suddenly Aged 28". www.msn.com. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  32. ^ "Deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle's daughter found hanged in bedroom, inquest hears". Sky News. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  33. ^ Hart, Simon (8 December 2001). "Inside Sport: Split looms over transfer windows". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  34. ^ "Privy Council" (PDF). Privy Council Office. 12 February 2013.
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