When Danny Kruger announced his joining of Reform UK, much of the commentary focused on strategy and polling numbers. What has been curiously overlooked is one of the deeper undercurrents of his decision: Kruger’s Christian faith, and what that reveals about the moral direction of British politics.
Kruger has never hidden his convictions. He has spoken out against assisted suicide, defended the role of family, and articulated a politics rooted in something more enduring than managerial technocracy. His move to Reform is not only about disillusionment with the Conservative Party’s policies - it is a rebuke of the Conservatives’ moral drift.
For years, grassroots Christian voters, who once looked naturally to the Conservative Party, have watched with dismay as the party has torn itself away from the faith and tradition that gave it shape.
Just in the last year, 20 Conservative MPs - including Rishi Sunak, Oliver Dowden, and senior frontbenchers like Mel Stride, Victoria Atkins, and Chris Philp - backed legislation to legalise assisted suicide.
Three Conservatives, Kit Malthouse, Andrew Mitchell and Laura Trott, voted not only to allow assisted suicide but also to push through recent abortion liberalisations. Four other Conservatives voted in both lobbies on decriminalising abortion. Eighteen abstained.
For Christian voters, those are not minor technical votes. They represent a rejection of the foundational Christian ethic of protecting life from conception to its natural end.
Danny Kruger has dealt a blow to the Conservatives that's much bigger than politics - Fleur Elizabeth
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This is not an isolated trend. Back in March 2022, an astonishing 72 Tory MPs voted to make the “pills by post” abortion scheme permanent, despite repeated evidence of safeguarding concerns and strong opposition from churches and pro-life groups.
Increasingly, one wonders: if a party repeatedly discards Christian principles on life, family, and conscience, how can it still claim to represent Britain’s social fabric?
The abandonment stretches beyond life issues. Christian concern over free speech has been mounting as successive Conservative governments expanded hate-crime and public-order legislation in ways that many fear will criminalise orthodox Christian teaching on marriage, sex, and gender.
People of faith are right to ask why the “party of liberty” presided over laws that could see silent prayer outside abortion clinics treated as a crime.
In this context, Kruger’s departure is not simply a personal career move - it is symbolic of a wider reckoning. What happens when the old “natural home” of cultural conservatives stops being recognisably conservative, let alone Christian?
Reform UK, whatever one thinks of its policies, has been unapologetic about voicing truths that once would have been instinctive for Conservatives: Britain is a Christian country, and its values matter. That isn’t mere nostalgia - it reflects the lived reality of a nation whose laws, culture, and liberties were grounded in the faith Kruger shares.
Contrast that with Kemi Badenoch’s highly publicised admission that she “stopped being a Christian.” Here is the Tory leader who publicly walked away from the moral tradition the party once embodied. That declaration may have been personal, but politically it registers as one more signal of a party embarrassed - even hostile - to its Christian inheritance.
Danny Kruger has not suddenly become a different man. He is the same parliamentarian who weaved biblical principles into his speeches, who stood against radical social change dressed up as “modernisation,” and who thought politics should ultimately answer to something higher.
The only difference is that he finally admitted that today’s Conservative Party offers no place for that vision.
By crossing to Reform, Kruger is making a stark point: Christianity still has a political voice in Britain - but it won’t be heard inside a Conservative Party that sneers at its own roots. In that sense, his decision isn’t just about Reform’s rise. It is about whether a party that forgot its soul can ever hope to recover it.
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