US EditionShadow Welfare Minister Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK
Danny Kruger joins Reform UK as first sitting Conservative MP to defect, leading a new unit to prepare the party for government amid Conservative Party decline, Reform UK polls at 27%.
- Danny Kruger, the MP for East Wiltshire, left the Conservative Party to join Reform UK during an event held on Monday, September 15, in Mayfair.
- Over the summer, Kruger engaged in talks about joining Reform and was persuaded by Nigel Farage’s commitment to welfare reform, announced at the party’s annual conference.
- Kruger announced he would lead Reform's new unit preparing for government, tasked with recruiting political and non-political talent to create a serious legislative programme.
- Kruger described leaving the Conservatives as "personally painful" and condemned his former party as "over", citing a year of "stasis and drift" reflected in poor polls.
- The defection caused disappointment among Conservatives and criticism from Labour and Liberal Democrats, while Reform aims to present itself as a government-in-waiting with fully costed plans.
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Tory MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK and tries to portray himself as ‘anti-establishment’
Danny Kruger has become the first sitting Tory MP to defect to Reform UK, and tried to portray himself as anti-establishment in the process, for which he has rightly been mocked. Kruger, the MP for East Wiltshire, who was elected in 2019, has been a shadow work and pensions minister under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Announcing his defection, Kruger said: “The Conservative Party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition …
Danny Kruger gives up on Toryism
Whatever way you look at it, the defection of Danny Kruger, until this morning the Conservative MP for East Wiltshire, to Reform is a significant moment. What exactly it signifies is another matter. This is the first defection of a sitting MP this parliament. While over the past year Reform has claimed a number of Tory names of varying profiles – Andrea Jenkyns, Jake Berry and Nadine Dorries being the most prominent – all had either lost their s…
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