Conservative MP Danny Kruger has become the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.Kruger has been an MP since 2019, and sat on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s team as a shadow work and pensions minister.”The Conservatives are over,” he told a press conference, sitting alongside Reform party leader Nigel Farage.Kruger said he had been “honoured” to be asked to help Reform prepare for government, and said he hoped that Farage would be the next prime minister.The East Wiltshire MP – who has said he would not be triggering a by-election – said the Conservatives were no longer the main party of opposition.He said: “There have been moments when I have been very proud to belong to the Tory party”, but added: “The rule of our time in office was failure.”Bigger government, social decline, lower wages, higher taxes and less of what ordinary people actually wanted.”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.”Although he said he had “great regard” for Badenoch, he said the Tory party had a “toxic brand”, adding: “We have had a year of stasis and drift and the sham unity that comes from not doing anything bold or difficult or controversial.”Describing his move leaving a party he has been a member of for 20 years as “personally painful”, he said his “mission” with Reform would be to “not just to overthrow the current system, it is to restore the system we need”.Responding to the news …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnConservative MP Danny Kruger has become the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.Kruger has been an MP since 2019, and sat on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s team as a shadow work and pensions minister.”The Conservatives are over,” he told a press conference, sitting alongside Reform party leader Nigel Farage.Kruger said he had been “honoured” to be asked to help Reform prepare for government, and said he hoped that Farage would be the next prime minister.The East Wiltshire MP – who has said he would not be triggering a by-election – said the Conservatives were no longer the main party of opposition.He said: “There have been moments when I have been very proud to belong to the Tory party”, but added: “The rule of our time in office was failure.”Bigger government, social decline, lower wages, higher taxes and less of what ordinary people actually wanted.”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.”Although he said he had “great regard” for Badenoch, he said the Tory party had a “toxic brand”, adding: “We have had a year of stasis and drift and the sham unity that comes from not doing anything bold or difficult or controversial.”Describing his move leaving a party he has been a member of for 20 years as “personally painful”, he said his “mission” with Reform would be to “not just to overthrow the current system, it is to restore the system we need”.Responding to the news …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
