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Neil Coyle
Neil Alan John Coyle (born 30 December 1978) is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015.
Coyle has at times been the subject of debate during his time in parliament, after being accused of being abusive to constituents, racist to journalists, and guilty of bullying Labour parliamentary staff. He has spoken about his battle with alcoholism. In February 2022, Coyle was suspended by Labour and banned from Parliament's bars for six months. He had the whip reinstated in May 2023.
Neil Coyle was born on 30 December 1978 in Luton. He grew up in Luton and is one of six children. He went to Wenlock and Ashcroft schools before receiving a full scholarship to Bedford School, an independent school for boys founded in 1552. He received a BA in British Politics and Legislative Studies from the University of Hull. From 2001 to 2003, he lived in China.
Coyle was elected as a councillor for Newington ward in the 2010 Southwark London Borough Council election. As a councillor, he supported the unsuccessful Garden Bridge project, on which his wife worked as a landscape architect, something about which he was open. He was deputy mayor of Southwark from 2014 to 2015. He stood down as a councillor in 2016.
At the 2015 general election, Coyle was elected to Parliament as MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark with 43.1% of the vote and a majority of 4,489. He was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. Following his election, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
Following the May 2016 elections, he co-wrote an article with Jo Cox which said that they had "come to regret" the decision of voting to make Jeremy Corbyn leader of the opposition. After the article was published, Coyle resigned as a Parliamentary Private Secretary. He then supported Owen Smith in his unsuccessful attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election. Coyle was highly critical of Corbyn and wrote a series of articles arguing against his position on several key issues, such as terrorism and Brexit.
In the 2016 referendum on the UK leaving the European Union (EU), Coyle campaigned to remain.
In February 2017, Coyle was one of 47 Labour MPs who defied the party's three-line whip to vote against triggering Article 50 for the UK to leave the EU and has called for it to be revoked. Coyle sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
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Neil Coyle
Neil Alan John Coyle (born 30 December 1978) is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015.
Coyle has at times been the subject of debate during his time in parliament, after being accused of being abusive to constituents, racist to journalists, and guilty of bullying Labour parliamentary staff. He has spoken about his battle with alcoholism. In February 2022, Coyle was suspended by Labour and banned from Parliament's bars for six months. He had the whip reinstated in May 2023.
Neil Coyle was born on 30 December 1978 in Luton. He grew up in Luton and is one of six children. He went to Wenlock and Ashcroft schools before receiving a full scholarship to Bedford School, an independent school for boys founded in 1552. He received a BA in British Politics and Legislative Studies from the University of Hull. From 2001 to 2003, he lived in China.
Coyle was elected as a councillor for Newington ward in the 2010 Southwark London Borough Council election. As a councillor, he supported the unsuccessful Garden Bridge project, on which his wife worked as a landscape architect, something about which he was open. He was deputy mayor of Southwark from 2014 to 2015. He stood down as a councillor in 2016.
At the 2015 general election, Coyle was elected to Parliament as MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark with 43.1% of the vote and a majority of 4,489. He was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. Following his election, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
Following the May 2016 elections, he co-wrote an article with Jo Cox which said that they had "come to regret" the decision of voting to make Jeremy Corbyn leader of the opposition. After the article was published, Coyle resigned as a Parliamentary Private Secretary. He then supported Owen Smith in his unsuccessful attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election. Coyle was highly critical of Corbyn and wrote a series of articles arguing against his position on several key issues, such as terrorism and Brexit.
In the 2016 referendum on the UK leaving the European Union (EU), Coyle campaigned to remain.
In February 2017, Coyle was one of 47 Labour MPs who defied the party's three-line whip to vote against triggering Article 50 for the UK to leave the EU and has called for it to be revoked. Coyle sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
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