Danny Kruger’s Christian Humanism

While the U.S. was reeling from the assassination of Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, across the Atlantic another event of significance to the conservative political world took place: The Conservative member of Parliament Danny Kruger defected to the Reform party. He is not the first to do so, but as Michael Gove, former cabinet minister and now editor of The Spectator, commented, earlier defectors were either “shop-soiled, eccentric, or unknown.” Kruger, by contrast, is a highflier, a man of impeccable reputation and one of the most constructive and careful Christian voices in politics anywhere in the world. His speech to the House of Commons (which hardly any of his colleagues had the good manners to attend) stands as a graceful and thought-provoking contribution to discussion of our cultural challenges from a Christian perspective.