Kieran Mullan
Kieran Mullan | |
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| Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Laura Smith |
| Majority | 8,508 (15.7%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Website | www |
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]
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.[2] He has written about education issues for ConservativeHome[3] and BrexitCentral.[4] He also founded ValueYou, a volunteer recognition scheme in Ealing.[5]
In March 2020, Mullan volunteered in a local hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Political career
Mullan unsuccessfully contested elections for two seats in the Midlands: Birmingham Hodge Hill in 2015,[7] and Wolverhampton South East in 2017.[8]
He was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Crewe and Nantwich seat in September 2018,[9] and benefited from pro-Brexit sentiment in the run-up to the December 2019 election.[10][11] He won what had previously been a marginal seat, defeating the incumbent Labour Party MP Laura Smith, by 8,508 votes.[12]
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.[13] Bentley chief executive Adrian Hallmark, warned that a no-deal Brexit could “compound the coronavirus disaster”[14] and pleaded with MPs 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.”[15]
Personal life
Mullan is gay.[16]
References
- ^ "Tories claim marginal seat of Crewe and Nantwich". BBC News. BBC. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Mullan, Kieran (31 August 2009). "Kieran Mullan: The NHS must stop hiding behind complex bureaucracy". The Independent. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Mullan, Kieran (15 December 2016). "Kieran Mullan: We need an education revolution to equip workers for the 21st Century". ConservativeHome. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Class of 2019: Meet the new MPs, Politics Home. Accessed: 26 April 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Birmingham Hodge Hill parliamentary constituency - Election 2015" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Wolverhampton South East Parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
- ^ Ellams, Barry (25 September 2018). "34-year-old doctor is new parliamentary candidate for Crewe and Nantwich". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Piper, Elizabeth (18 November 2019). "Switching allegiances? Brexit stirs election doubts around England". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Bounds, Andy (9 December 2019). "Can the Tories secure key marginal of Crewe and Nantwich?". Financial Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Jackson, Matt (13 December 2019). "General Election 2019: Conservative Kieran Mullan takes Crewe and Nantwich from Labour". StokeOnTrent Live. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Ryan, Belinda (5 June 2020). "Crewe MP vows to work with unions and workers over Bentley job cuts". Cheshire Live. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ Jolly, Jasper (5 June 2020). "Bentley to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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.