Doug Hoyle
British politician and peer (1926–2024)
Summary
Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, Baron Hoyle, was 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.
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