Matthew Doyle | |||||||||||||||||
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 Doyle in March 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| Downing Street Director of Communications | |||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Nerissa Chesterfield | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Matthew Leo Doyle June 1975 (age 49) | ||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||
Matthew Leo Doyle (born June 1975) [1] is a British political adviser and political aide who has served as Downing Street Director of Communications since July 2024.
Matthew Leo Doyle was born in June 1975. [1]
Doyle was Head of Press and Broadcasting for the Labour Party between November 1998 and May 2005. [2] He was then special adviser to Work and Pensions Secretary,David Blunkett,from May to November 2005,before working as a special adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair from November 2005 to June 2007. [2] He was the Downing Street Deputy Director of Communications under Blair. [3] He departed Downing Street after Tony Blair left office as Prime Minister,and went on to work as the Political Director of Blair's office from June 2007 to February 2012. [2]
Doyle was also the TV Debates Media Director for Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the 2010 general election. [2]
In 2012,he established his own political consultancy,MLD Advisory Ltd. [2] He also spent two years as the Director of Communications for the International Rescue Committee under former Foreign Secretary David Miliband. [2] [4]
Doyle led the press operation for Liz Kendall's campaign in the 2015 Labour leadership election. [5]
Controversially Doyle was appointed for 3 months as a media adviser to Secretary-General Patricia Scotland at the Commonwealth Secretariat in April 2016. Leaks to the media showed that he had been paid £48,000 for the 3 months work. [6]
Shortly after the Labour's defeat in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election, [7] Doyle was appointed the Labour Party Director of Communications on an interim basis under Leader Keir Starmer,with the role later becoming permanent. [8] [9] [10] After Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, [11] Doyle was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications. [12] [13]
Doyle is Roman Catholic. [14]
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