A leading conservative politician became Monday the first acting member of Parliament since last year’s elections to leave the main center of the United Kingdom to join Reform UK, the anti -immigration insurgent training that currently leads the opinion surveys.
During a press conference with the reform leader, Nigel Farage, Danny Kruger admitted that leaving his friends behind was painful, but added: “This is my tragic conclusion: the conservative party is over, it has ended as a National Party, it has ended as the main opposition.”
With this dropout, Reform continues to count only five seats in Parliament, despite the fact that the polls place him first in popularity, while the Labor Party of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has lost support a year after his overwhelming arrival to power.
Kruger, exassor of Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and David Cameron, had served as a social welfare spokesman in the “shabinet in the shadow” that conservatives maintain as the main opposition force in the United Kingdom.
Conservatives are the oldest and most successful political party in the United Kingdom, have governed during most centuries, including 32 of the last 46 years.
The party suffered a hard defeat in the national elections of last year and since then it has fallen even more in the surveys, while the popularity of the Starmer Labor Party has collapsed after political errors and a weak economic growth.
At least a dozen prominent figures of conservatives have joined reform, although Kruger is the first to do so while he continues to exercise as a deputy since last year’s elections.
Farage, veteran political agitator who reached international notoriety for his campaign in favor of Brexit, has benefited mainly from the collapse of support for the Starmer government. As he explained, it was Kruger who approached him.
The conservative leader KEMI Badenoch said that he was not going to “divert” for dropping out. “I know that this kind of thing will happen while the game is changing,” he told Sky News.
The Labor Party, who achieved one of the greatest electoral victories in modern history, has crossed some of its most difficult weeks in power after the forced departure of the Vice -Prime Minister Angela Rayner and the ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, this month.
