Neil Coyle
Neil Coyle MP | |
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Official Parliamentary portrait, June 2017 | |
Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark | |
Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
Preceded by | Simon Hughes |
Majority | 12,972 (22.1%) |
Member of the Southwark London Borough Council for Newington | |
In office 6 May 2010 – 22 March 2016 | |
Preceded by | James Gurling |
Succeeded by | James Coldwell |
Personal details | |
Born | 30 December 1978 |
Website | https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/neil-coyle/4368 |
Neil Coyle (born 30 December 1978) is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, first elected at the 2015 general election.
Coyle also served 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.
Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.
At the 2017 snap general election, Coyle was re-elected with an increased majority.