1. Lloyd Russell-Moyle was born on 14 September 1986 and is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown from 2017 to 2024.
27 Facts About Lloyd Russell-Moyle
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle is a national executive member of the Socialist Educational Association, the education affiliate to the Labour Party, being re-elected in September 2024.
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Lloyd Cameron Russell-Moyle was born on 14 September 1986 in Brighton, England.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle was educated at Wallands Primary School, Priory School, Lewes, and Sussex Downs College.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle studied at the University of Bradford and the University of Sussex.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle was elected and served as a councillor on Brighton and Hove City Council in August 2016.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle described the complaint as "vexatious and politically motivated" and expressed a belief that he would be fully exonerated.
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On 10 December 2018, Lloyd Russell-Moyle was suspended from the House of Commons for the remainder of the day's sitting after he seized the ceremonial mace in protest at the government's eleventh-hour deferral of the vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement, which had been scheduled for the following day.
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On 5 March 2019, Lloyd Russell-Moyle joined thirteen other Labour MPs on Westminster Bridge, next to the Houses of Parliament, in a protest against Brexit under the banner 'Love Socialism Hate Brexit'.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle was one of a number of MPs to light red flares on the bridge.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle described how an individual first began arguing with an ITV News crew suggesting that they were part of a "mainstream media conspiracy to stop Brexit".
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle then approached the scene and said that he was an MP and that "the majority of [his] constituents had voted Remain".
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle said that this information exacerbated the situation further with the individual describing MPs as "traitors" and lunging at him.
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In June 2019, Lloyd Russell-Moyle was criticised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews for hosting a Stop the War coalition meeting in Parliament to which a representative of the Yemeni Houthi group, Ahmed Alshami, had been invited.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle made his offer to host the meeting conditional on the non-participation of Alshami.
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In December 2019, Lloyd Russell-Moyle sparked controversy when he said he was not a "cunt" in refusing to call for the immediate resignation of Jeremy Corbyn, during an exchange on instant messenger with a former party member, which was leaked to The Sun.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle was appointed Shadow Foreign Minister in January 2020, holding the brief for the Americas and Caribbean, East Asia and the Pacific and the Overseas Territories.
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On 16 July 2020, Lloyd Russell-Moyle resigned from his frontbench role, citing a "campaign by the right-wing media" which he believes led to him and his staff receiving targeted abuse.
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In January 2023, Lloyd Russell-Moyle reacted angrily to a speech by Miriam Cates in a debate on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle later apologised to Dame Rosie Winterton and to Cates for the tone of his response.
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Rosie Duffield accused Lloyd Russell-Moyle of crossing the floor at the end of the debate to sit near to Cates Conservative MP Paul Bristow confirmed the report and said he moved closer to Cates in response to Lloyd Russell-Moyle's behaviour, which he thought was in order to intimidate her.
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In December 2023, Lloyd Russell-Moyle introduced a bill to ban Conversion therapy after failed attempts by the government to introduce such a bill.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle drafted the bill in public, meeting people from all sides and included key safeguards to protect parents, regulated medical practitioners and free speech but prevented the abusive practice.
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In March 2024 Lloyd Russell-Moyle launched the final of three reports on youth work policy and practice the first of which was drafted with the National Youth Agency and last was drafted with Ben Bradley and the Centre for Young Lives.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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In November 2018, during a House of Commons debate to mark the 30th World AIDS Day, Lloyd Russell-Moyle revealed he had been diagnosed as HIV positive a decade earlier, saying he wanted to tackle the stigma still associated with the condition and stating: "I have not only survived, I've prospered, and any partner I have is safe and protected", making reference later in his speech to having an undetectable viral load, as well as discussing pre-exposure prophylaxis and public health policy.