Gemma Doyle
Gemma Doyle was elected as the MP for West Dunbartonshire in May 2010.[1]
Doyle was born in 1981 in the Vale of Leven Hospital. She grew up in Dumbarton where she attended St Patrick’s Primary and Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School.[1]
Doyle attended the University of Glasgow, where she, graduated with an MA in European Civilisation. During University she worked behind the bar in the Dumbuck Hotel and as a cleaner in a Glasgow hotel.[1]
Before being elected to Parliament, Doyle worked as a Political Officer for the Parliamentary Labour Party. Previously she worked as a Conference Producer for the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Conference Development Manager for a small business and as a caseworker and parliamentary assistant for a number of MSPs.[1]
She joined the Labour party aged 15 and served on its Scottish Executive and National Policy Forum before being selected as Labour’s candidate in West Dunbartonshire in 2010.[1]
Doyle is is a Shadow Defence Minister, with specific responsibility for defence personnel, welfare and veterans.[2]
Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy backed Doyle's husband, Gregor Poynton in a Labour Party selection process for the Falkirk constituency which was suspended in 2013.[3]
Doyle sponsored the Westminster launch of the Henry Jackson Society report In Scotland’s Defence? An Assessment of SNP Defence Strategy, on 4 July 2013.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 About Gemma, gemmadoyle.org.uk, accessed 4 July 2013.
- ↑ My Work in Parliament, gemmadoyle.org.uk, accessed 4 July 2013.
- ↑ Michael Crick, Battle of Falkirk gets murkier for Labour, Channel 4 News, 3 July 2013.
- ↑ In Scotland’s Defence? An Assessment of SNP Defence Strategy, Henry Jackson Society, 26 June 2013.
