Who is Danny Kruger? PM rejects MP’s declare about marriage between women and men
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ishi Sunak has rejected claims from a Tory MP that marriages between women and men are the “only possible basis for a safe and successful society”, his spokesman has stated.
Danny Kruger told a conference that marriage is “a public act” that “wider society should recognise and reward”, and burdened that moms and dads ought to keep collectively for the sake of their youngsters.
The Devizes MP – a former political secretary to Boris Johnson when he was prime minister – made the feedback in London on the National Conservatism Conference, an occasion organised by a Right-wing US assume tank.
Downing Street has distanced the prime minister from these remarks, the BBC reported. Mr Sunak’s spokesman stated though some ministers had chosen to talk on the occasion that didn’t imply the federal government endorsed its agenda.
The annual convention is billed as a gathering of people that “are inextricably tied to the idea of nation” and “see national conservatism as the best path forward”.
Other Tory MPs together with Suella Braverman, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Michael Gove and Miriam Cates additionally spoke on the occasion.
Who is Danny Kruger?
Danny Kruger, 48, is a Tory MP and the son of Bake Off decide Prue Leith, 82, and creator Rayne Kruger, who died in 2002. He is married and has three youngsters.
Mr Kruger attended Eton College and studied historical past on the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford.
Danny Kruger has been the Conservative MP for Devizes since 2019
/ Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/PABefore turning into a politician, Mr Kruger labored at a centre-right assume tank as a Conservative Party coverage adviser, as a author for the Daily Telegraph, and as David Cameron’s chief speech author. He additionally co-founded Only Connect, which is a youth crime prevention charity primarily based in London.
Mr Kruger has been a Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire since 2019. He has persistently voted in opposition to measures to forestall local weather change, for a stricter asylum system, and in opposition to extra EU integration, in line with They Work For You, which analyses how MPs vote.
The MP was fined in 2021 after losing control of his Jack Russell pet, who chased deer in Richmond Park and triggered a stampede of about 200 animals. In 2020, he was made to apologise after being photographed without a face mask on a prepare.
In June 2022, throughout a debate within the Commons in regards to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, he stated he does not believe that women have “an absolute right to bodily autonomy”. Mr Kruger stated he would “probably disagree” along with his parliamentary colleagues on the ruling.
He stated: “They think that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy in this matter, whereas I think in the case of abortion that right is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.”