Danny Kruger - MP for East Wiltshire | Reform Watch
Profile and accountability tracker for Danny Kruger, MP for East Wiltshire. Reform UK.
Role: MP for East Wiltshire
Party: Reform UK
Recorded incidents (showing 1-5 of 5)
Danny Kruger calls to remove voting rights for Commonwealth citizens
Category: xenophobia
Danny Kruger, Reform UK MP for South West, said Commonwealth citizens represented a significant threat to democracy and argued that millions who were not attached to the country should not have the right to vote. He said Reform would make it illegal to issue election material in foreign languages, restrict postal voting to members of the armed forces and those unable to vote in person, and endorse banning so-called family voting. The remarks formed part of Reform UK's policy proposals to restrict voting eligibility and regulate election communications. Kruger presented these proposals publicly and remains the party's MP for South West. If enacted, the measures he proposed would remove voting rights from many Commonwealth citizens and limit access to electoral materials in other languages.
Danny Kruger says European countries could reasonably deny British expatriates benefits
Category: discriminatory remark
Danny Kruger told BBC Breakfast that it would be reasonable for European countries to deny British expatriates access to benefits if Reform UK blocked foreign nationals from claiming support in Britain. He said welfare should be paid by the country of citizenship and that Reform planned a budget to ensure British nationals would be entitled to British benefits, and he said people with mild mental health conditions should not be consigned to live isolated at home. The comments were made as Reform UK set out a policy to ban most foreign nationals in the UK from claiming benefits, a measure the party says would save £21bn a year by its fifth year. There has been no reported disciplinary action or resignation linked to Kruger’s remarks and he remains a Reform UK MP.
Danny Kruger equates support for LGBT rights with Hamas in public remarks
Category: discriminatory remark
Reform MP Danny Kruger said during Reform UK's membership drive over the weekend that the UK could be led by an "appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party". The remarks were shown in a clip shared on Reform UK's YouTube page in which he listed support for LGBT rights alongside backing for Hamas. Labour MPs, including Polly Billington, criticised the comments as "outdated and out of line" and called on Reform leader Nigel Farage to condemn them. Kruger defended the remarks at a press conference in London as highlighting what he called incoherence among opposing parties; Farage has faced calls to act and the party has been contacted about Kruger's comment.
Danny Kruger says 'LGBT-supporting' parties could form 'appalling' nationalist government
Category: discriminatory remark
On 28 October 2025, Reform UK MP Danny Kruger told a party press conference that after the next election left-wing groups could "get together and have some sort of appalling, Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting, nationalist party" that would threaten the United Kingdom. He said a vote for any other party "risks this kaleidoscope of catastrophe," and positioned Reform UK as the only alternative. The remarks drew criticism from across the political spectrum, with Labour MPs Sir Chris Bryant and Polly Billington describing the comments as divisive and out of step with modern Britain, and a Liberal Democrat source calling the language "disgraceful and completely unacceptable." The controversy has arisen amid wider criticism of Reform UK, including recent remarks by MP Sarah Pochin, and party leader Nigel Farage was asked to state whether he agreed with Kruger’s comments.
Danny Kruger said Muslim-majority areas represented an 'entirely un-British' way of life
Category: racism
In 2025, while explaining Reform UK's proposed mass deportation policy, Reform MP for East Wiltshire Danny Kruger said: "My concern is when whole cities essentially become Muslim. We’re getting a segregated society. We’re seeing…whole communities living an entirely un-British life." The remark was made in the course of discussing the party's migration proposals. The comment came amid Reform's pledge to deport more than 650,000 people and proposals to end indefinite leave to remain. Kruger had defected from the Conservatives in September 2025 and was one of 13 former Tory MPs to join Reform; his statement highlighted the racial dimension of the party's migration proposals and his position as a Reform MP at the time.