Neil Coyle
Neil Coyle | |
|---|---|
| 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 | 30 December 1978 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]
References
- ^ "Bermondsey & Old Southwark Parliamentary constituency". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Neil Coyle profile". Labour Party. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Who nominated who for the 2015 Labour leadership election?". New Statesman. London. 15 June 2015.
- ^ "We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it". Guardian. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Dearden, Lizzie (3 December 2015). "Labour MP Neil Coyle reports death threat over support for Syria air strikes to police". Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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