Lucy Allan was first elected as the Conservative MP for Telford in 2015, and was reelected in 2019 with a majority of 10,941.
Telford is a compact constituency in Shropshire. It contains the old industrial towns of Madely and Dawley, and a number of New Town developments such as Woodside. Telford is a typical swing seat which was held by Labour between 1997 and 2015. It was won by the Conservatives in both 2015 and 2017 with ultra low majorities, but the party gained the seat comfortably in 2019, in part related to the fact that a high two thirds (66%) of voters backed Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.
Born in 1964, Lucy Allan attended Durham University. In a varied career before entering Parliament, Allan was formerly a Chartered Accountant with PWC, then worked in the City for UBS and Mercury Asset Management, before retraining as an employment lawyer and setting up her own employment law firm.
In 2012, Allan founded Family First Group, a lobby group which campaigns to reduce the number of children in state care, for improvements to the UK child protection system and support for families affected by it.
Allan is on the libertarian wing of the Conservative Party, and citing the importance of personal responsibility has said that she was uncomfortable with both the sugar tax and the smoking ban. She is supportive of assisted dying.
She served as a councillor on Wandsworth Council between 2006 and 2012.
Allan is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Choice at the End of Life; and an Officers of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Looked After Children and Care Leavers
She is married with one son.
Email: lucy.allan.mp@parliament.uk
Personal Website: http://www.lucyallan.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/lucyallan
