Lucy Allan, the outgoing Conservative MP for Telford, has been suspended after urging voters in her constituency to vote for her seat’s Reform UK candidate. On Twitter, she copied a link to the campaign website of Alan Adams, says she is “supporting [him] to be Telford’s next MP” and telling voters that if they “want to help Alan or donate to his campaign” to “sign up on his website”.
A Conservative spokesperson confirmed Allan had been “suspended from the Party with immediate effect”. They suggested that the “people of Telford now have the chance to vote for a dedicated and hardworking new Candidate who will put Telford first” and that a “vote for Reform is a vote for Keir Starmer”. Lee Anderson, the Tory to Reform defector, called Allan’s choice a “great move”.
According to James Heale, this makes Allan the first Conservative MP to lose the whip after an election was called since Charles Wardle in 2001. She will spend her remaining two days as an MP as an independent. The Conservative candidate in Telford is Hannah Campbell, a former owner of a retail business turned business mentor who stood in Birmingham Selly Oak in 2019.
Electoral Calculus currently gives her a 7 per cent chance of success. Whatever the odds, and whatever Allan’s own views, ConservativeHome wishes Campbell all the best.
