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Kieran MullanMP
Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 December 2019
Preceded by	Laura Smith
Majority	8,508 (15.7%)
Personal details
Born	c. 1984 (age 40–41)
Political party	Conservative
Website	www.drkieranmullan.org.uk

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

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. He has written about education issues for ConservativeHome and BrexitCentral. He also founded ValueYou, a volunteer recognition scheme in Ealing.

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

Political career

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

He was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Crewe and Nantwich seat in September 2018, and benefited from pro-Brexit sentiment in the run-up to the December 2019 election. He won the marginal seat for the Conservatives, defeating the incumbent Labour Party MP Laura Smith, by 8,508 votes.

In June 2020, Mullan vowed to work with Bentley workers and unions after 1,000 job losses were announced at the company's Crewe factory. Bentley chief executive Adrian Hallmark warned that a no-deal Brexit could "compound the coronavirus disaster" and pleaded with MPs 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."

On 24 June 2020, Mullan voted against the weekly testing of all NHS and social care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite promising to "speak up for, and work for, staff" at the NHS during the election victory speech he gave six months earlier. When questioned he noted that the motion was flawed since many NHS were not frontline workers, as they worked from home, reminding that NHS staff testing would have to be more targetted. He also noted that the BMA was not supportive of the Labour motion. In July 2020, Mullan voted against New Clause 17, which intended to protect the NHS and publicly funded health and care services in other parts of the UK from any form of control from outside the UK in a future post-Brexit trade deal.

In August 2020, Mullan vowed to fight any attempt to expand a controversial Muller development in Nantwich that had been given the go-ahead by the government. Yet days later, a Freedom of Information Request revealed that Mullan had made no representations to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government between his election in December 2019 and July 2020 when the decision was announced to permit phase one of Muller's controversial 'Nantwich South' development. The decision by Secretary of State Robert Jenrick to allow the first phase of the 1,000 home scheme effectively ended an eight-year campaign against the development by residents and Cheshire East former MPs Laura Smith and Edward Timpson.

In October 2020, Mullan voted against the continuation of free school meals for children during school holidays.

Personal life

Mullan is gay.

References

1. "Tories claim marginal seat of Crewe and Nantwich". BBC News. BBC. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
2. Mullan, Kieran (31 August 2009). "Kieran Mullan: The NHS must stop hiding behind complex bureaucracy". The Independent. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
3. Mullan, Kieran (15 December 2016). "Kieran Mullan: We need an education revolution to equip workers for the 21st Century". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
4. 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.
5. Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs, Politics Home. Accessed: 26 April 2020.
6. 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.
7. "Birmingham Hodge Hill parliamentary constituency - Election 2015" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
8. "Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
9. Ellams, Barry (25 September 2018). "34-year-old doctor is new parliamentary candidate for Crewe and Nantwich". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
10. Piper, Elizabeth (18 November 2019). "Switching allegiances? Brexit stirs election doubts around England". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
11. Bounds, Andy (9 December 2019). "Can the Tories secure key marginal of Crewe and Nantwich?". Financial Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
12. Jackson, Matt (13 December 2019). "General Election 2019: Conservative Kieran Mullan takes Crewe and Nantwich from Labour". StokeOnTrent Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
13. Ryan, Belinda (5 June 2020). "Crewe MP vows to work with unions and workers over Bentley job cuts". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
14. Jolly, Jasper (5 June 2020). "Bentley to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
15. Campbell, Peter (5 June 2020). "Bentley to cut quarter of workforce as UK car sector job losses hit 5,000". Financial Times. Retrieved 29 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
16. "Testing of NHS and Social Care Staff: Recent Votes". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
17. Ousbey, Jenny (28 January 2020). "Game changers". PharmaTimes. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
18. https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/cheshire-mps-voted-against-weekly-18534707
19. "Trade Bill — New Clause 17 - International trade agreements: health or care services: Recent Votes". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
20. "New Clause 17 - International trade agreements: health or care services: 20 Jul 2020: House of Commons debates". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
21. "MP vows to fight Muller scheme expansion after Stapeley appeal ruling". Nantwich News. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
22. ^ Ryan, Belinda (22 August 2020). "Row erupts over controversial Stapeley scheme". CheshireLive. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
23. "MP votes against free school meals extension". Crewe News. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
24. 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.

External links

• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou

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• Living people
• Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
• UK MPs 2019–
• LGBT politicians from England
• LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom