Former Conservative MP Danny Kruger has joined Reform UK in a defection announced on Monday.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Nigel Farage, Kruger claimed, “the Conservative Party is over,” but that its “failure” had made way for Reform as an alternative.
“The flame is passing from one torch to another,” said the MP for East Wiltshire, describing his decision to defect as “personally painful.”
Introducing Danny Kruger to the podium, Nigel Farage told reporters Kruger would lead a department preparing Reform UK for government.
“Our mission is not just to overthrow the current system, it is to restore it,” Kruger elaborated.
Adding: “If you are serious about saving our country… We want your help,” before calling for people to join the party as well as provide “confidential advice,” if they worked in the “public sector or military.”
Addressing what he viewed as the failure of his former party, Kruger said: “We have had a year of stasis and drift and the sham unity that comes from not doing anything bold or difficult or controversial and the result is in the polls.
“And those voters aren’t coming back, and every day, more and more people are joining them in deserting the party that has failed.”
He added: “This is my tragic conclusion: the Conservative Party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left.”
Danny Kruger has been an MP since 2019 and was serving as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary prior to his defection.
Danny Kruger is the first sitting Conservative MP, and first shadow minister, to defect to Farage’s party, bringing Reform’s total number of MPs to six.
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