Lindsay Hoyle

Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (born 10 June 1957) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the member of parliament (MP) for Chorley since 1997. He is the son of Doug Hoyle, a former Labour MP for Warrington North. He was elected as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in a secret ballot on 8 June 2010.

He is President of the All-Party British Gibraltar Group in Parliament and Chairman of the All Party British Virgin Islands Group.

Early life
Hoyle went to Anderton County Primary School, and the independent Lord's College, Bolton. Prior to being elected into Parliament, he ran his own screen printing business.

Parliamentary career
Hoyle was the first Labour politician to represent Chorley at Westminster in eighteen years. Prior to Parliament, he was a Councillor on Chorley Borough Council from 1980 to 1998. Hoyle also held the post of Deputy Leader from 1994 to 1997, and finished his time of the Council as Mayor from 1997 to 1998. In February 1996, he was officially chosen to stand as a candidate for the following year's general election, in which he won.

Hoyle was one of the 1997 Labour intake of MPs, winning a majority of 7,625. He later served as a member of the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee from 1998 to 2010.

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

On 20 March 2013, he won some acclaim for his handling of the Budget proceedings, which were frequently interrupted by jeering MPs.

In February 2017, he told off SNP MPs for singing "Ode to Joy," the official EU anthem, during the vote for the Brexit Bill in the House of Commons. The same night, he had a clash with former First Minister, Alex Salmond, in a heated exchange over whether he had cut off an SNP MP while speaking.

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.

Hoyle was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for parliamentary and political services.

Personal life
Hoyle married Catherine Swindley in June 1993 in Chorley; he had one daughter.

His only daughter, Natalie Lewis-Hoyle (whose mother was Conservative Councillor Miriam Lewis ) died suddenly in December 2017, aged 28. On 23 May 2018, at Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative MP John Whittingdale asked a question as to why Natalie Lewis-Hoyle had taken her own life after years of being in a "coercive" relationship.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales tributes
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. 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. Neither proposal was carried out.