Neil Coyle

In February 2019, Coyle revealed that he had declined an invitation to join The Independent Group, later Change UK, a splinter group of centrist Labour and Conservative MPs that formed that month.

Coyle has been criticised for his use of language in public on a number of occasions. In September 2019, Coyle referred to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on British television as "a dick." Following the incident, Coyle spoke with the Southwark News saying his constituents had complained about his use of language, suggesting he doesn't "need to be that crude." Coyle then told the Southwark News, "I will be toning down the language but never the passion."

In February 2017, Coyle was one of 47 Labour MPs who defied the party's three-line whip to vote against triggering Article 50 for the UK to leave the EU and has called for it to be revoked. Coyle sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee. At the 2017 snap general election, Coyle increased his majority.

He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Wines and Spirits, the secretariat for which is provided by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, which is based in Coyle's constituency. He also chairs the APPG for Foodbanks, which he established in 2017, as well as those for Ending Homelessness and Counter Extremism. He is a member of the Co-operative Party and Progress.

Following the May 2016 elections, he co-wrote an article with Jo Cox which said that they had "come to regret" the decision of voting to make Jeremy Corbyn leader of the opposition. After the article was published, Coyle resigned from the shadow cabinet. He then supported Owen Smith in his unsuccessful attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election. Coyle has remained highly critical of Corbyn and has written a series of articles arguing against Corbyn's position on everything from terrorism to Brexit.

In the 2016 referendum on the UK leaving the European Union (EU), Coyle campaigned to remain.

Coyle defeated the Liberal Democrat incumbent, Simon Hughes, to take Bermondsey & Old Southwark at the 2015 general election. He was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. Following his election, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

Coyle was elected as a councillor for Newington ward in the Southwark London Borough Council election 2010. As a councillor, he supported the unsuccessful Garden Bridge project, on which his wife worked as a landscape architect. He stood down as a councillor in 2016.

Neil Coyle (born 30 December 1978) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he previously was elected to Southwark London Borough Council in 2010.

Coyle grew up in Luton and is one of six children. He went to Wenlock and Ashcroft schools before being educated at the Bedford School, an independent school for boys founded in 1552. He received a BA in British Politics and Legislative Studies from the University of Hull.