'Any Tory who can see the national interest would join Reform'

DANNY Kruger believes Britain’s democracy faces an “emergency” and in a quiet corner of the Palace of Westminster he is plotting a transformation of the country.

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The father of three became the first sitting Conservative MP to join Reform UK in September and he has been charged with ensuring the party can start work on changing Britain immediately if Nigel Farage becomes prime minister at the next election.

This former top aide to Conservative leaders including David Cameron and Boris Johnson now argues only Reform can “save the country”.

“I believe in Nigel and the philosophy of Reform, and they are the party I always wanted the Tories to be,” he says.

Just as Mr Farage’s Brexit party stood down candidates in the 2019 election to avoid splitting the Right-wing vote, he now pleads with Conservatives to get behind Reform.

Warning that the Tories are a “potential blocker” for a Reform victory, he says: “I think any Conservative who could see plainly what the national interest is would themselves step down — ie, join the Reform party.”

He admits to being “terrified” at the thought of Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats joining forces with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists and independents to “stop Reform”.

“You can imagine them disestablishing the Church, taking us out of Nato,” he says.

“The whole smorgasbord of dystopian policies that the Left hold — which are only held back at the moment by the need to appeal to Middle England — would suddenly be given full rein.

“I can imagine some Labour leader, Starmer or his successor, signing up to all of that to stay in Number 10.”

He is determined Reform will present a “better alternative” for the country.

“We need a Government that actually honours the public and we need major economic reform to get prosperity going again, to liberate growth and create wages that can sustain a family,” he says.

He is in no doubt about his role as one of Reform’s five MPs, saying: “My job is to prepare us for Government.”