{"id":231805,"date":"2025-02-04T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sir-lindsay-hoyle-says-later-father-was-everything-to-him\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:43:07","slug":"sir-lindsay-hoyle-says-later-father-was-everything-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sir-lindsay-hoyle-says-later-father-was-everything-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Lindsay Hoyle says later father was ‘everything’ to him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Speaker of the House of Commons has paid tribute to his “truly dedicated parliamentarian” father, the late Lord Doug Hoyle.<\/p>\n

Sir Lindsay Hoyle described his father – who died last April aged 98 – as a “force to be reckoned with”. <\/p>\n

His son has told of the “void” left by his death.<\/a><\/p>\n

Former prime minister Sir John Major, former defence secretary Lord George Robertson and the current defence secretary, John Healey, paid their respects at St Margaret’s Church, next to Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lord Hoyle served as MP for Nelson and Colne, in Lancashire, between 1974 and 1979, before becoming MP for Warrington North in 1981.<\/p>\n

He chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party between 1992 and 1997, when he was elevated to the Lords and served as a whip for two years.<\/p>\n

Former foreign secretary Baroness Margaret Beckett and former Labour adviser Anji Hunter were also at the service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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