Conservative MP Danny Kruger Defects To Reform UK
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Conservative MP Danny Kruger defected to Reform UK on Monday after claiming the Tory Party “is over”.
Reform leader Nigel Farage said the MP for East Wiltshire will lead the party’s department for preparations for government.
Kruger is the latest Tory to join Reform, following former ministers Nadine Dorries and Jake Berry.
However, he is the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Farage’s party.
A former speech writer for David Cameron, he also ran Robert Jenrick’s unsuccessful leadership campaign after the general election.
The new Reform UK MP said the country had had a “year of stasis and drift” and the voters the Tories lost between 2019-2024 are not coming back to the party.
He claimed he had come to a "tragic conclusion" the "Conservative Party is over.”
Kruger told reporters at a conference on Monday: “It’s never been needed more and actually it’s never been more vibrant, because the failure of the Conservative Party has created space for an alternative.
“The flame is passing from one torch to another. The old torch, once so great, is guttering, fluttering, held weakly in uncertain hands, but the new torch is already alight, already brighter than the one it is replacing, held aloft in firm and confident hands.”
He added: “And while the torch is different, the flame is the same, the things we conservatives all believe in, respect for the law, respect for our traditions, personal liberty, national sovereignty, free markets, belief in family, community, country, the trinity of obligations that give us identity and security and purpose.”
