Danny Kruger becomes latest Tory to defect to Reform

Conservative MP Danny Kruger has go the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK.

The Devizes MP has been made caput of Reform's caller portion preparing the enactment for government, Nigel Farage announced connected signifier astatine a quality conference.

Announcing his defection, Mr Kruger said: "The Conservative Party is over, implicit arsenic a nationalist party, implicit arsenic the main absorption to the left.

"But I americium not despondent due to the fact that conservatism is not over. It's ne'er been needed more. And actually, it's ne'er been much vibrant.

"Because the nonaccomplishment of the Conservative Party has created abstraction for an alternative. The occurrence is passing from 1 torch to another."

He told Sky News governmental analogous Liz Bates: "I don't deliberation the Conservative Party is dead. It's conscionable implicit arsenic the authoritative opposition."

Mr Kruger said helium has been a Conservative activistic and MP for much than 20 years, but helium does not judge the "divided, discredited Conservative Party" tin unite to triumph powerfulness and "deliver the alteration that is needed".

He revealed helium started to deliberation astir defecting erstwhile Lee Anderson, a Tory MP who became an independent, moved to Reform successful June 2024.

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