 He also became active in the Labour Party, and in the 1924 general election he was chosen as Labour Party candidate for Torquay.Moyle's intervention in what was a close fight between the Conservatives and Liberals, where Labour had not fought in the two previous elections, was met with annoyance on the part of the Liberal Party.In the end, the Liberals lost the seat by much more than the 2,752 votes which Moyle obtained.