Senior Conservative blasts MP for 'betraying the voters of Crewe and Nantwich'

By Belinda Ryan - Local Democracy Reporter 28th Mar 2023

Dr Mullan has remained tight-lipped over claims he has expressed an interest in the Chester South and Eddisbury seat (Nub News).
Dr Mullan has remained tight-lipped over claims he has expressed an interest in the Chester South and Eddisbury seat (Nub News).

A senior local Conservative has urged Dr Kieran Mullan to stand down as an MP at the next election - following claims he wants to ditch Crewe and Nantwich for a safer seat.

Dr Mullan has remained tight-lipped over claims he has expressed an interest in the Chester South and Eddisbury seat.

As Crewe Nub News reported on Wednesday 22 March, political website, Guido Fawkes, claimed Dr Mullan was considering ditching his current constituency.

A senor local Conservative is incensed, asclaims about Dr Mullan jumping ship come just three months after he vowed to stand for Crewe and Nantwich (Conservatives UK).

With Crewe and Nantwich predicted to turn red in the next general election, some local Tories have claimed the Conservative MP has put his own personal ambition first.

They are incensed, as the claims about him jumping ship come just three months after he vowed to stand for Crewe and Nantwich.

One furious senior local Conservative, who contacted the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) but did not wish to be named, launched a blistering attack on the Tory MP.

They said: "Kieran Mullan has betrayed the voters of Crewe and Nantwich by placing his personal ambition above his accountability to the public that elected him.

"The relationship between MP and constituent relies on openness, honesty, selfless and objectivity – it is not something to be callously tossed into the gutter when a plummier opportunity comes along next door," he said.

Political website, Guido Fawkes, indicates Dr Kieran Mullan MP has been putting his name forward for the Chester South and Eddisbury seat - along with Iceland Foods director, Malcolm Walker OBE (Guido Fawkes).

"Kieran Mullan has also betrayed the Conservative Party – particularly here in Crewe and Nantwich.

"He gave us assurances when we selected him as our candidate, and he renewed those publicly in December when he declared he would stand for us again.

"How does he think those volunteers who helped him knock on doors, delivered leaflets, and donated their hard-earned cash – many from their pensions – feel now?"

The angry Tory continued: "I am genuinely rattled to see this from a doctor and former policeman, who ought to be setting a positive leadership example to us all.

"The solution is completely clear to me – Dr Mullan must do the decent thing and declare, without delay, that he will stand down as a Member of Parliament at the next election.

A senior local Conseravtive has claimed Dr Kieran Mullan has also betrayed the Conservative Party – particularly in Crewe and Nantwich (Wikimedia Commons).

"His political career is over anyway, now he has shown such a lack of integrity – and he will be no loss to the Prime Minister, or Crewe and Nantwich Conservative members."

He added: "The voters of Chester South and Eddisbury have had – I hope – the benefit of a near miss, and assurances given by anybody seeking the Conservative candidacy in that new seat need to be tested rigorously."

Crewe Nub News and LDRS have contacted Dr Mullan without receiving a response.

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