Career
Coyle also currently serves the constituency as a councillor, taking his place in the Newington ward in 2010. After his re-election as a councillor in 2014 Coyle became Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Southwark. Alongside his role as trustee for a local mental health charity and the North Southwark Environment Trust, he is also a national policy and campaigns advisor on social care and tackling poverty.
He has raised funds for the Evelina Children"s Hospital and for a local Garden Farm.
Neil Coyle was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. On 3 December 2015 he received a death threat through Twitter after voting for military action against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria.
Coyle received police protection.