Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK

Conservative MP Danny Kruger has become the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK. Kruger has been an MP since 2019, and sits on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's team as a shadow work and pensions minister. "The Conservatives are over," he told a press conference, sitting alongside Reform party leader Nigel Farage. Kruger said he had been "honoured" to be asked to help Reform prepare for government, and said he hoped that Farage would be the next prime minister. The East Wiltshire MP - a former political secretary to Boris Johnson when he was prime minister - said...