Danny Kruger - an established Tory MP and no outlier - has left the Conservatives and joined Nigel Farage's Reform Party. Hat tip to RealClearWorld for the link.
Kruger isn’t some eccentric loner. He was appointed shadow work and pensions secretary under Kemi Badenoch and spearheaded the [Tory] party’s opposition to assisted dying. Prior to entering parliament he was David Cameron’s speechwriter and Boris Johnson’s political secretary.
He is the first solid Tory to make the switch, and doing so he announced, "The Conservatives are over." If you keep a weather eye on UK politics (as I do), you know this could be significant. The timing, coming soon after the "million man" Unite the Kingdom march in London, gives the move extra impact.
Aristotle was right, one swallow does not make a spring. But it can only be a favorable omen.
N.B., As I'm an Anglophile, the British struggle to regain control of their island is likely to be a story we'll follow for some weeks or months here at COTTonLINE.
