Doug Hoyle

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Person.png Lord Hoyle  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
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Born17 February 1930
ChildrenLindsay Hoyle
Founder ofLabour Friends of Israel

Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, Baron Hoyle is a British politician and life peer who was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 1997 and a lord-in-waiting from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Nelson and Colne from 1974 to 1979 and Warrington North from 1981 to 1997.

Doug Hoyle stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election and, on 14 May 1997, was created a life peer as Baron Hoyle, of Warrington in the County of Cheshire. Lord Hoyle has since retired from the House of Lords on 25 June 2023.[1]


In 1957 Doug Hoyle helped found Labour Friends of Israel.[2]


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