Neil Coyle
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Neil Coyle MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
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Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Simon Hughes |
| Majority | 4,489 (8.7%) |
| Member of the Southwark London Borough Council for Newington |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | James Gurling |
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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.
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.
Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. Following the May 2016 elections, he co-wrote an article with Jo Cox which said that they had "come to regret" that decision.
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.
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