Kieran Mullan

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, stating 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]

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 the marginal seat for the Conservatives, defeating the incumbent Labour Party MP Laura Smith, by 8,508 votes.[12] During his election victory speech he said he would "speak up for, and work for, staff" at the NHS and increase the number of GPs.[13]

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.[14][15]

On 24 June 2020, Mullan voted against the weekly testing of all NHS and social care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.[16] When questioned he stated that the motion was flawed since many NHS staff were not frontline workers, as they worked from home, and that NHS staff testing would have to be more targeted. He also said that the BMA was not supportive of the Labour motion.[17]

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.[18] 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.[19] 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.[19]

In September 2020 and January 2021, Mullan abstained in votes which would have increased fire safety. The vote came after the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire and a fire at Beechmere supported living complex in Crewe in August 2019.[20]

In October 2020 the Conservative Party office in Nantwich was the subject of an emotive demonstration following Mullan's vote against extending free school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.[21]

Mullan is gay.[22]

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