05 Jul Labour’s Neil Coyle re-elected as MP

Neil Coyle has retained Bermondsey and Old Southwark for Labour. The Lib Dem challenger, Rachel Bentley came second. 54% of those eligible to vote actually did so, significantly lower than 2019’s 63% turnout.

According to Southwark news, ‘speaking following the result, Mr Coyle said “across the whole country democracy is being done”… People are showing they’ve had enough of the chaos, enough of the incompetence and enough of the cuts and enough of the damage to our country for the last fourteen years and they are choosing the positive change and they are choosing to fix our democracy and our country.’

Neil Coyle lost the Labour whip from February 2022 until May 2023 after an expletive-laden, drunken tirade in a parliamentary bar, caused, he has often said by his alcoholism: he is now sober. His constituency office is at 149 Jamaica Road, SE16 4SH.