Lloyd Cameron Russell-Moyle (born 14 September 1986) is a British politician and youth work administrator who has served as General Secretary (CEO) of the Woodcraft Folk since August 2025.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Kemptown from 2017 to 2024. Formerly a member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he was also a member of Brighton and Hove City Council from 2016 to 2017. He joined the Green Party of England and Wales in November 2025.

Early life and education Lloyd Cameron Russell-Moyle was born on 14 September 1986 in Brighton, England.

He was educated at Wallands Primary School, Priory School, Lewes, and Sussex Downs College.

He studied at the University of Bradford graduating in conflict resolution at the Department of Peace Studies and the University of Sussex, where he graduated with a Masters in international law.

Russell-Moyle has worked for the Woodcraft Folk's international movement, International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International (IFM-SEI), and the National Youth Agency. He has held board positions with the European Youth Forum, serving as its Vice-President based in Brussels, the British Youth Council, and the Woodcraft Folk, which he chaired, as well as a number of local youth organisations.

Political career

Russell-Moyle unsuccessfully stood at the 2015 general election in Lewes, coming fourth with 9.9% of the vote behind the winning Conservative candidate Maria Caulfield, the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, and the UKIP candidate Ray Finch.

He was elected and served as a councillor on Brighton and Hove City Council in August 2016. Following his election to Parliament, Russell-Moyle resigned from the Council in December 2017.

At the snap 2017 general election, Russell-Moyle was elected to Parliament as MP for Brighton Kemptown, winning with 58.3% of the vote and a majority of 9,868.

At the 2019 general election, Russell-Moyle was re-elected as MP for Brighton Kemptown with a decreased vote share of 51.6% and a decreased majority of 8,061. His speech on the night, which included an undertaking to "fight [the Tories] in ... the Parliament ... the courts ... the workplaces ... the streets", aroused comment in the press and on social media.

On 29 May 2024, he was suspended from the Labour Party in relation to a complaint about his behaviour eight years prior, before he was an MP. Because there was insufficient time for the investigation of the complaint to be resolved before the candidacy deadline for the 2024 general election, he became ineligible to stand as the Labour Party candidate for Brighton Kemptown. He described the complaint as "vexatious and politically motivated" and expressed a belief that he would be fully exonerated. In January 2025 it was announced, the investigation had concluded the month before and found "insufficient evidence to proceed", with the complainant then withdrawing the allegation and his full membership restored.

On 20 November 2025, Russell-Moyle joined the Green Party of England and Wales. He cited his disillusion with the Labour Party's direction and its leadership, stating that they "left behind millions" who wanted "hope... [and] change in their lives."

European Union, Brexit and parliamentary protest Russell-Moyle was a critic of Brexit and supported a further public vote on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. In 2019 he was one of the parliamentarians involved in the Cherry/Miller litigation before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which ruled that Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament was unlawful.

On 10 December 2018, he was suspended from the House of Commons for the rest of the day's sitting after taking the ceremonial mace in protest at Theresa May's decision to defer the vote on her Brexit withdrawal agreement.

On 5 March 2019, Russell-Moyle joined thirteen other Labour MPs on Westminster Bridge, next to the Houses of Parliament, in a protest against Brexit under the banner 'Love Socialism Hate Brexit'. Russell-Moyle was one of a number of MPs to light red flares on the bridge. The use of flares so close to Westminster drew the attention of uniformed police, who arrived by boat to inquire what was taking place.

Russell-Moyle was involved in a physical altercation on 21 March 2019 whilst out showing support for demonstrators leafleting for 'The People's March', a demonstration in support of the People's Vote campaign. Russell-Moyle described how an individual first began arguing with an ITV News crew suggesting that they were part of a "mainstream media conspiracy to stop Brexit". Russell-Moyle then approached the scene and said that he was an MP and that "the majority of [his] constituents had voted Remain". He said that this information exacerbated the situation further with the individual describing MPs as "traitors" and lunging at him. The incident took place less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Theresa May gave a speech on Brexit in which she blamed MPs for deliberately delaying her attempt to ensure the UK left the EU by 29 March.

During the attempted prorogation of Parliament in September 2019, Russell-Moyle joined MPs protesting in the Commons chamber and appeared to try to prevent Speaker John Bercow leaving for the prorogation ceremony by lying across him.

HIV and public health HIV and public health were among Russell-Moyle's principal policy interests throughout his parliamentary career. In November 2018, during a House of Commons debate marking the 30th World AIDS Day, Russell-Moyle became the first Member of Parliament to disclose in a speech in the House of Commons that he was living with HIV. During his speech he said he had been diagnosed 10 years earlier and had decided to speak publicly to reduce the stigma surrounding HIV and to highlight that, although the United Kingdom was close to ending new HIV transmissions, progress had begun to slow.

Following his disclosure, Russell-Moyle became one of Parliament's leading advocates on HIV policy. As an officer and treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS, he campaigned for wider access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), reductions in HIV stigma, increased HIV testing and improved public health responses. He was a prominent supporter of opt out HIV testing in NHS emergency departments, a policy later adopted across a number of high prevalence hospitals, including the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

Russell-Moyle continued to campaign throughout his time in Parliament for the Government's target of ending new HIV transmissions in England by 2030, arguing that sustained investment in testing, treatment and prevention was required to achieve the goal.

Following his announcement in Parliament, Russell-Moyle was appointed Honorary Patron of the British HIV Association, a position he has continues to hold.

Youth work

Drawing on his professional background in youth work before entering Parliament, Russell-Moyle maintained a longstanding interest in youth policy throughout his parliamentary career. Before his election he worked for the National Youth Agency and held leadership roles within the European youth sector, serving as Vice President of the European Youth Forum. In that role he represented European youth organisations internationally and co-chaired the International Youth Task Force for the World Conference on Youth 2014, which developed the Colombo Declaration as a youth contribution to the United Nations post-2015 development agenda. He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Educational Association, the education affiliate of the Labour Party.

Russell-Moyle used a range of parliamentary mechanisms to promote youth work, including serving as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs, introducing a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to establish a statutory youth service, tabling Early Day Motion 58723 on the importance of youth work, leading parliamentary debates and producing a series of cross party policy reviews.

In May 2018, as Chair of the APPG on Youth Affairs, Russell-Moyle launched a parliamentary inquiry into the role and sufficiency of youth work in England. The inquiry, jointly chaired with Conservative MP Gillian Keegan, examined the impact of reductions in youth work funding and concluded that declining provision had adversely affected young people and communities. It recommended increased long term investment, a national youth strategy, improved workforce planning, capital investment in youth facilities and stronger cross government coordination.

The inquiry received cross party support and was debated in the House of Commons in July 2019. Following the inquiry, the Government announced the £500 million Youth Investment Fund, providing capital funding for new and refurbished youth facilities across England.

Russell-Moyle subsequently chaired two further APPG inquiries into youth work policy and practice. In March 2024 he launched the third and final report in the series of parliamentary reviews into youth work. The first inquiry had been produced with the National Youth Agency, while the final report was developed with Conservative MP Ben Bradley and the Centre for Young Lives. The report recommended a National Youth Work Strategy, a national workforce strategy, renewed investment in professional youth work qualifications and clearer ministerial leadership for youth work. Following the report, the Government announced work on a National Youth Strategy and measures to expand the youth work workforce, including the relaunch of apprenticeship routes into youth work.

Russell-Moyle regularly addressed parliamentary receptions and events organised by the National Youth Agency promoting youth work and youth workers, including the agency's Celebration of Youth Work reception in Parliament in 2022.

LGBT rights, transgender rights and conversion therapy Russell-Moyle was a vocal advocate of LGBT rights throughout his parliamentary career and became particularly associated with campaigning on transgender rights. He frequently spoke against what he described as attempts to roll back LGBT protections and legal recognition for transgender people, a position he continued to defend after leaving Parliament.

During Prime Minister's Questions on 20 March 2019, Russell-Moyle urged Prime Minister Theresa May to condemn comments by Andrea Leadsom suggesting that parents should decide when children were "exposed" to LGBT education. Russell-Moyle described the comments as "Conservative Party dog whistle politics" and criticised May for having supported Section 28, arguing that it had caused "millions of young people like myself" to grow up in fear of being LGBT.

Russell-Moyle was also a prominent parliamentary advocate of transgender rights. In June 2020, he wrote an article in Tribune arguing that Labour should defend transgender rights and warning against what he described as a "new Section 28". The article criticised those using personal experiences of sexual violence to oppose transgender rights, including comments made by J. K. Rowling. Following criticism, Russell-Moyle apologised for suggesting that Rowling had discussed her experiences of abuse in anything other than good faith and asked for the passage to be removed from the article. In a later interview after leaving Parliament, Russell-Moyle said he believed the controversy reflected wider disagreements over transgender rights within Labour and maintained that public figures could legitimately be criticised for their views on transgender issues while accepting that his comments about Rowling's personal experiences had been badly phrased.