Another day, another defector joins Reform. This time it’s Tory MP Danny Kruger, who has joined Nigel Farage’s outfit to lead the party’s ‘preparations for government’ – despite the politician never having held a ministerial job himself. The first sitting Conservative politician to defect to Reform since last year’s election gave a punchy statement at Farage’s London presser this morning, telling his audience:
I hoped after our defeat last year that the Conservative party would learn the obvious lesson, that the old ways don’t work, that centrism is not enough, that real change is needed. But no. 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 lost voters aren’t coming back, and every day, more and more people are joining them in deserting a party that has failed. And so this is my tragic conclusion: the Conservative party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left.
Shots fired!
Kruger has been an MP for six years, elected in 2019 after serving as political secretary to then-prime minister Boris Johnson. The MP for East Wiltshire follows Johnson ally Nadine Dorries into the party, after the former culture secretary announced her defected on the eve of Reform UK’s annual conference. Will more Tories follow? Stay tuned…
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