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Danny Kruger

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  1. “Well, the but was because of what they were saying at that time about the welfare reforms that were being introduced by the Labour government.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I was very worried about that. I said, I think if you gave the full quote, you'd hear me saying, I agree with the Reform Party's position on many things.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I need to know that. So, what I wanted to, what I exactly, so the conversation essentially went along the lines of, I think you're right, but I need to have confidence that you're serious, not just that you have the right analysis and diagnosis of the country's problems, because in a sense those are obvious. I think he's articulated them with clarity and courage for many years and deserves credit for that. But in a sense, we can all see what the problem is. Those of us on the right anyway, what I need to know, and I think what the whole country wants to know is, will reform actually deliver? Will they make a plan for government that is coherent, credible, responsible and radical? And that's the conversation we had over the last few weeks. And the good news is, he said, yes, I do, and I'd like you to help deliver it. I was pleased about.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I approach Nigel as probably the most accurate way of saying it. Obviously conversation's gone on in a very informal way. I mean, I know Lee Anderson well, having been a colleague of his previously. I didn't know Nigel well. And what happened was I approached him to say over the course of this summer, I think you're right. I don't think the Conservative Party is going to come back from this. I think you represent the best chance that the country has, but also those of us of a conservative disposition have, and I think I should join you.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, listen, I don't want to get into a critique of Kemi's strategy. I think the fundamental one was the suggestion that the best thing to do for the Conservative Party is to disappear from sight for a year or more and to not make deliberate and bold policy pledges that were needed. So the fundamental one, and the reason actually I supported Rob for his leadership and brave man before that, in the previous leadership election, was because they recognized we need to get out of the ECHR. That fundamental principle about sovereignty and the practical necessity of extricating ourselves from a legal framework that prevents us from delivering what the public all want, which is an ends to uncontrolled illegal migration. That's what we need to do back then, and we still haven't, the conservative party still haven't done it yet.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “You almost said us. I'm constantly saying that. I mean, listen, reform is very different from the Conservative Party, but I am still a Conservative and I still have a lot of friendships in the Conservative Party. And I regret what has happened on a personal level.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Yeah, it was over this summer. There wasn't a specific moment. But a year ago when we lost the election last July, there was a leadership election then. I supported Rob. What I hope then is that the party would recognize the scale of the challenge it faced. And that meant, I'm afraid, to say, repudiating a lot of the recent past of the Conservative Party, doing something quite painful, might have involved some internal controversy. I think Rob was up for that, but he didn't win. We've had a different strategy. The Conservative Party had a different strategy, which was to maintain unity at all costs and to go away and do some serious thinking and then come back when the public were ready to hear from them. I respect that strategy. I think it was the wrong one, and it hasn't worked.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Of those things. It was painful. It is painful, and it was very painful on the day I did it. It was not an enjoyable experience. Don't recommend it if you're trying to have a good day, to leave the party of, I mean, more like 30 years. I mean, as a student, I went to the Conservative Party Scottish conference. And I have been involved in all sorts of ways and levels over that time. And I've got a lot of good friends who I know are hurt. And only a few have had a go at me and they weren't friends anyway. The people I care about are, I think, silently regretful and sorry.”

    2025-09-26 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · Preparing Farage for Power: Danny Kruger on defecting to Reform UK · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source