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Gemma Doyle (politician)

Gemma Doyle
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Shadow Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans
In office
8 October 2010 – 8 May 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Bob Ainsworth
Succeeded by Rachael Maskell
(as Shadow Minister for Armed Forces Personnel and Veterans)
Member of Parliament
for West Dunbartonshire
In office
6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by John McFall
Succeeded by Martin Docherty
Personal details
Born (1981-04-13) 13 April 1981 (age 36)
Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Nationality Scottish
Political party Labour Co-operative
Alma mater University of Glasgow
Committees Energy and Climate Change 2010, Administration 2010, Armed Forces Bill 2011–

Gemma Doyle (born 13 April 1981) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire between 2010 and 2015.

She previously worked for the Labour Party, and before that for the Institute of Civil Engineers as a conference organiser, for the political communications company Holyrood Communications Ltd, and as a Labour party researcher for Cathy Craigie Labour MSP.

She had previously stood as a Labour candidate in Scotland at the 2004 European Parliament elections.

In October 2010 she became Labour's Shadow Defence Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, deputy to Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy. In 2011, she was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011. She lost her seat in the 2015 election, and after leaving parliament became director of a public affairs firm.


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