Lindsay Hoyle

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Person.png Sir Lindsay Hoyle  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
Lindsay Hoyle.png
BornLindsay Harvey Hoyle
10 June 1957
Member ofLabour Friends of Israel

Employment.png Speaker of the House of Commons Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
4 November 2019 - Present

Employment.png UK/Member of Parliament for Chorley

In office
1 May 1997 - Present

Sir Lindsay Hoyle is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 2019, and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chorley since the 1997 General Election. He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Elected Speaker

Lindsay Hoyle was first elected as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means in 2010,[1] and later as the Speaker on 4 November 2019.[2]

Pressure to resign

On 23 February 2024 Sir Lindsay Hoyle was facing continued pressure to step down as Commons Speaker after almost 70 MPs called for him to go. Some 67 MPs, more than a tenth of the Commons, signed a motion proposed by senior Conservative William Wragg expressing no confidence in the Speaker over his handling of the Gaza ceasefire debate on Wednesday 21 February 2024.[3]

Apology

Hoyle apologised for his handling of the debate and offered an emergency debate on the SNP’s motion calling for a ceasefire.[4]

2024 election challenge

Four candidates standing against Sir Lindsay Hoyle at Chorley in the UK/General election/2024 are:

Ben Holden-Crowther of Democracy for Chorley
Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons seeking re-election
Martin Powell-Davies of TUSC
Mark Worsley Tebbutt of the Green Party[5]


 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Losing the Plot: reflections on the Gaza debate debacleArticle24 February 2024John S WarrenIt wasn’t the Nasty Nats that lost the plot. It was the Labour Party, and the Speaker. I trust they have now lost Scotland.
Document:Meeting the Gaze of the Ghost in the RubbleArticle28 February 2024George GunnMeanwhile the ghost still looks out from the rubble of Gaza. Her stare searches across the ocean of our conscience like the beam of a lighthouse. The ghost in the rubble asks of us all: why can we not stop this madness and feed the people?
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