Allan suspended for supporting reform candidate in Telford

Lucy Allan, the outgoing Conservative MP for Telford, was suspended after urging voters in her constituency to vote for her seat’s Reform UK candidate. On Twitter, she copied a link to Alan Adams’ campaign website, said she “supports him to become Telford’s next MP” and urged voters to “log in to his website” if they wanted to “help Alan or donate to his campaign”.

A Conservative spokesman confirmed that Allan had been “expelled from the party with immediate effect”. They said that “the people of Telford now have the chance to vote for a committed and hard-working new candidate who will put Telford first” and that “a vote for Reform is a vote for Keir Starmer”. Lee Anderson, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform, called Allan’s election a “great move”.

According to James Heale, Allan is the first Conservative MP to lose confidence after an election 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 retail shop owner turned management consultant who stood in Birmingham Selly Oak in 2019.

Election calculation currently gives her a 7 percent chance of success. Whatever the odds and whatever Allan’s own views, ConservativeHome wishes Campbell all the best.