Kieran Mullan


Kieran Mullan is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament 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 what had previously been a marginal seat, 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 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.”

Personal life

Mullan is gay.