1. Neil Alan John Coyle was born on 30 December 1978 and is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015.
30 Facts About Neil Coyle
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Neil Coyle has apologised for his conduct and been open about his battle with alcoholism.
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Neil Coyle was suspended by Labour and banned from Parliament's bars for six months.
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Neil Coyle grew up in Luton and is one of six children.
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Neil Coyle went to Wenlock and Ashcroft schools before receiving a full scholarship to Bedford School, an independent school for boys founded in 1552.
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Neil Coyle received a BA in British Politics and Legislative Studies from the University of Hull.
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Neil Coyle was elected as a councillor for Newington ward in the 2010 Southwark London Borough Council election.
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Neil Coyle was deputy mayor of Southwark from 2014 to 2015.
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Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.
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Neil Coyle then supported Owen Smith in his unsuccessful attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election.
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Neil Coyle was highly critical of Corbyn and wrote a series of articles arguing against his position on several key issues, such as terrorism and Brexit.
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In February 2017, Neil 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.
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In February 2019, Neil Coyle said 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.
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In May 2021, Neil Coyle reported Corbyn to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, claiming that Corbyn had failed to declare full legal funding.
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Neil Coyle had his Labour Party membership administratively suspended, pending an investigation.
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Neil Coyle has been criticised for his use of language in public on a number of occasions.
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In September 2019, Neil Coyle referred to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on British television as "a dick".
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Neil Coyle told the Southwark News, "I will be toning down the language but never the passion".
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Many Labour MPs voiced their concerns, but Neil Coyle went a step further by describing Corbyn's stance as "bullshit".
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Neil Coyle again received media coverage after a day of strongly worded statements in the House of Commons.
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Rees-Mogg was branded a "Scrooge" by Neil Coyle, who invited Rees-Mogg to visit Neil Coyle's constituency, one of the affected areas.
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In early February 2022, Neil Coyle was accused of making Sinophobic remarks on 1 February to Henry Dyer, a political reporter of British-Chinese origin.
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Dyer said Neil Coyle refused to apologise when he confronted him, with Neil Coyle asking him, "if it was just the case that [Dyer] was being over-sensitive".
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In July 2022, Neil Coyle said he drank a lot because working as an MP is stressful.
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In March 2023, Neil Coyle was found to have breached Parliament's bullying and harassment policy and was suspended from the Commons for five days.
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Neil Coyle had the Labour whip suspended from February 2022 to May 2023.
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Labour MP Kim Johnson strongly criticised Neil Coyle for charging taxpayers in his effort to make amends for his abusive behaviour.
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Neil Coyle raised the question of whether he is genuinely committed to learning from his mistakes.
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Neil Coyle's wife is a landscape architect and they have one daughter.
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Neil Coyle has written about the impact on his family of his mother's mental ill-health.