[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.

[8][9][10] After Labour's victory in the 2024 general election,[11] Doyle was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications.