Neil Coyle

Neil Coyle MP
Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Simon Hughes
Majority	4,489 (8.7%)
Member of the Southwark London Borough Council for Newington
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	James Gurling
Personal details
Born	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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.^[3]

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.^[4]

References

1. "Bermondsey & Old Southwark Parliamentary constituency". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
2. "Neil Coyle profile". Labour Party. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
3. "Who nominated who for the 2015 Labour leadership election?". New Statesman (London). 15 June 2015.
4. Dearden, Lizzie (3 December 2015). "Labour MP Neil Coyle reports death threat over support for Syria air strikes to police". Retrieved 4 December 2015.