Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK

Conservative MP Danny Kruger has defected to Reform UK.

Kruger has been an MP since 2019, and sits on 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.

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