Daniel Rayne Kruger (born 23 October 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Devizes since the 2019 general election. He is the son of writer and property developer Rayne Kruger, and restaurateur and television presenter Prue Leith. Prior to being an MP, he was Prime Minister David Cameron's chief speechwriter and was chief executive of a youth crime prevention charity called Only Connect.

Quotes

• We plan to introduce a period of creative destruction in the public services.
  • Comment (first reported in The Guardian) leading to Kruger standing down as Conservative candidate in Sedgefield (then the constituency of Labour prime minister Tony Blair), as cited in "Tory candidate quits over remark", BBC News (15 March 2005).

• Nihilism has consumed left-liberalism from within, and now animates the corpse. Old socialist principles like the dignity of labour and the solidarity of the working class, and liberal principles like free speech, tolerance and the value of dissent, have given way to a new social justice orthodoxy which admits no dignity or solidarity and brooks no dissent. Yet because it occupies the life-like corpse of liberalism, the new orthodoxy attracts the usual bien-pensant progressives (including some calling themselves conservatives) who think they are still promoting a diverse and tolerant society.
  • "Could Sunak be the Tories’ new Pitt the Younger? " The New Statesman (15 April 2023)

• The penny is dropping among people in Westminster that the Government doesn’t run the Government. [...] There's a huge movement going on globally to create essentially a world government that will have power to dictate to national governments what they should do in anticipation of another pandemic.
  • Speaking at a joint IEA and Taxpayers' Alliance event (2 October 202) held at the Conservative Party conference "The Tories are lost to lunatic conspiracy and moral obsolescence (not that Rishi Sunak cares)", i (2 October 2023)

External links

• Guardian profile