Danny Kruger is the latest Tory defector to Reform. He will lead the party’s new ‘preparing for government’ unit. Speaking at Reform’s press conference this morning, Kruger said:
“The Conservative Party is over… it is over as a national party, and over as the principle opposition to the left… We are planning change on a scale that the system has not seen since the modern civil service was created in the 19th century…”
Kruger is a serious player who has been a central voice in policy development on topics from immigration to national security. He is also the first sitting shadow minister to jump ship. A real coup for Reform…
Peter Mandelson has finally said sorry for believing Jeffrey Epstein over the paedophile’s victims. He told BBC Newsnight:
“Yesterday, I did not want to be held responsible for his crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others. I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered. I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes. Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death. But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”