Kieran Mullan

Kieran Mullan is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe and Nantwich at the 2019 general election.[1]

Kieran Mullan

MP
Member of Parliament
for Crewe and Nantwich
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byLaura Smith
Majority8,508 (15.7%)
Personal details
Bornc. 1984 (age 35–36)
Political partyConservative
Websitewww.drkieranmullan.org.uk

Political career

Mullan unsuccessfully contested elections for two seats in the Midlands: Birmingham Hodge Hill in 2015,[2] and Wolverhampton South East in 2017.[3]

He was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Crewe and Nantwich seat in September 2018,[4] and benefited from pro-Brexit sentiment in the run-up to the December 2019 election.[5][6] He won what had previously been a marginal seat, defeating the incumbent Labour Party MP Laura Smith, by 8,508 votes.[7]

In May 2020, Mullan voted against requiring new international treaties on the import of agricultural and food products to ensure products imported into the UK under those arrangements comply with World Trade Organization safety rules and the UK's own standards.[8] Conservative MPs Simon Hoare and Neil Parish led the parliamentary push for the Agriculture Bill, which would have created a level playing field between British farmers and those overseas in future trade agreements after the UK left the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.[9] The Bill would have also guaranteed a UK ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef but it was defeated in Parliament by a majority of 51.[10]

In June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mullan voted against the weekly testing of NHS and social care staff,[11] and vowed to work with Bentley workers and unions after 1,000 job losses were announced at the company's Crewe factory.[12] Bentley chief executive Adrian Hallmark, warned that a no-deal Brexit could “compound the coronavirus disaster”[13] and pleaded with politicians such as Mullan who support an "uncontrolled" exit from the EU that this policy would lead to further job losses, urging politicians: "please don’t push us off a second cliff.”[14]

Career before Parliament

Mullan worked in national health policy as a lobbyist and as a junior doctor in A&E. In his role as policy director of the Patients Association, Mullan was a vocal critic of NHS care standards, claiming that the organisation "must stop hiding behind complex bureaucracy" when mistakes were made regarding NHS patients.[15] He has written about education issues for ConservativeHome[16] and BrexitCentral.[17] He also founded ValueYou, a volunteer recognition scheme in Ealing.[18]

In March 2020, Mullan volunteered in a local hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.[19]

Personal life

Mullan is gay.[20]

References
  1. "Tories claim marginal seat of Crewe and Nantwich". BBC News. BBC. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  2. "Birmingham Hodge Hill parliamentary constituency - Election 2015" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  3. "Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
  4. Ellams, Barry (25 September 2018). "34-year-old doctor is new parliamentary candidate for Crewe and Nantwich". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. Piper, Elizabeth (18 November 2019). "Switching allegiances? Brexit stirs election doubts around England". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  6. Bounds, Andy (9 December 2019). "Can the Tories secure key marginal of Crewe and Nantwich?". Financial Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. Jackson, Matt (13 December 2019). "General Election 2019: Conservative Kieran Mullan takes Crewe and Nantwich from Labour". StokeOnTrent Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  8. "Agriculture Bill — New Clause 2 — International trade Agreements: Agricultural and Food Products — Compliance with UK and Word Trade Organisation Standards: Recent Votes". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  9. "Bid to maintain UK food standards in future trade deals fails". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  10. "Sunak joins chlorine chicken rebels by mistake". BBC News. 13 May 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  11. "Testing of NHS and Social Care Staff: Recent Votes". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  12. Ryan, Belinda (5 June 2020). "Crewe MP vows to work with unions and workers over Bentley job cuts". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  13. Jolly, Jasper (5 June 2020). "Bentley to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  14. Campbell, Peter (5th June 2020). "Bentley to cut quarter of workforce as UK car sector job losses hit 5,000". Financial Times. Retrieved 29th June 2020. Check date values in: |access-date=, |date= (help)
  15. Mullan, Kieran (31 August 2009). "Kieran Mullan: The NHS must stop hiding behind complex bureaucracy". The Independent. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  16. Mullan, Kieran (15 December 2016). "Kieran Mullan: We need an education revolution to equip workers for the 21st Century". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  17. Mullan, Kieran (9 December 2019). "Labour's refusal to respect the referendum result is losing them life-long voters in places like Crewe". BrexitCentral. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  18. Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs, Politics Home. Accessed: 26 April 2020.
  19. Abbit, Beth (30 March 2020). "MP goes back to work as a doctor to help colleagues during the coronavirus pandemic". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  20. Reynolds, Andrew (13 December 2019). "The UK's parliament is still the gayest in the world after 2019 election". Pink News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Laura Smith		 Member of Parliament
for Crewe and Nantwich
2019–present		 Incumbent
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