Oddball MP Danny Kruger – who defected from the Conservatives to Reform last year – has been put in charge of Reform’s preparations for government. So you better lock your bedroom doors!
Kruger, son of TV sponge-botherer Prue Leith, has given an interview to the Politico website in which he set out how he would tackle the “totally unregulated sexual economy” that the Christian hardliner has identified as being at the heart of the nation’s ills.
Asked about what Reform’s role will be in “undoing the sexual revolution”, as his interviewer puts it, Kruger tells the site: “A limited but important one.”
“Marriage traditionally was the means by which sexual relations between men and women were regulated, and I think we are suffering from having a totally unregulated sexual economy,” the East Wiltshire MP says.
“I am interested in the framework in which you make your decisions, and I’d like the framework to be more pro-social. If you want – most people do want – to settle down with one person to have children, we should make that easier.”
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He set out his opposition to no-fault divorces, introduced by the Conservative government in 2022. Previously couples needed to cite adultery, unreasonable behaviour or separation, and the change was aimed at reducing conflict, animosity and legal finger-pointing battles, particularly among couples with children.
Kruger claims the change “basically means that your vows don’t matter”, but laments: “I don’t know whether we’d be able to reverse it. I don’t think that would be party policy, to change that.”
But he does say that Reform in government would introduce policies to incentivise British couples to have more children, saying: “Yes, we have a pronatalist ambition. We want people to have more children, and we think the government should get behind that wish.
“Clearly, the system is totally dysfunctional. There’s a massive disincentive for parents to be able to organise their finances around their actual lives. It’s broken.”
So a Reform government with Kruger around will be one aggressively policing private lives, with a Christian ethos of plenty of children and lifelong monogamy. Something for Nigel Farage, who has been divorced twice, and his deputy Richard Tice, who split up with his wife after starting a relationship with the journalist Isabel Oakeshott, to conjure with!
Incidentally, which is the political hero who Kruger compares Farage to? Churchill? Thatcher? Er… “I’ve been hoping for a return to IDS all these years, but I found that in Nigel – he is my IDS,” says Kruger, putting his boss alongside Iain Duncan Smith, the man who lasted two years as Conservative leader.
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