Biography

The son of a rail executive and city magistrate, Elliot Tyler was born in the London border town of Harold Wood. Elliot studied Computing at Portsmouth University and read Law as a postgraduate at Birkbeck, University of London. He maintained an interest in the university political scene and was involved in the election campaign of city council leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson CBE. In 2024-2025 he served as a Councillor on Wootton Bridge Council. He sits on the Executive Council of an Isle of Wight constituency campaigning organisation.

Elliot’s interest in justice began when visiting a friend in HMP Pentonville. Since then, he has served as Deputy Editor of The Justice Gap’s print magazine Proof and as a Contributing Editor of The View Magazine, a quarterly publication founded by incarcerated women. He has written opinion pieces for Probation Quarterly, Human Rights Pulse, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, and Inside Time. His work on rehabilitation and prison reform has appeared on the popular political affairs website The Canary.

Elliot has worked for an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice since 2022. He previously worked as a prison service contractor, improving healthcare provision by engaging with serving prisoners. His written work has been published in the SAGE academic peer-reviewed Probation Journal. He was a Senior Editor of the Birkbeck Law Review, a critical law journal, in 2023.

In 2024, Elliot was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Longford Trust, a charity – founded in memory of the late Earl of Longford – that supports serving and ex-prisoners to complete degree studies by providing financial and mentoring support.

In his spare time, he has volunteered with the National Trust as a countryside ranger. He is an enthusiastic collector of contemporary art and wine, a keen European traveller, a parkrun enthusiast, and distance runner representing the Ryde Harriers running club. Elliot has been highly ranked online as a competitive chess player.