Daniel Rayne Kruger was born on 23 October 1974 and is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Devizes in Wiltshire since 2019.
27 Facts About Danny Kruger
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Danny Kruger left this role two years later to work full-time at a youth crime prevention charity that he had co-founded called Only Connect.
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Danny Kruger was Prime Minister Boris Johnson's political secretary between August and December 2019.
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Danny Kruger was born in Westminster to South African parents, writer and property developer Rayne Danny Kruger, and restaurateur and television presenter Prue Leith.
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Danny Kruger obtained a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford in 2000.
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Danny Kruger worked as a policy adviser in the Conservative Party's Policy Unit from 2003 to 2005.
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In 2005, Danny Kruger became the chief leader writer of The Daily Telegraph.
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Danny Kruger was selected as the Conservative candidate for Sedgefield at the 2005 general election, challenging prime minister Tony Blair in the seat.
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Danny Kruger was forced to drop out of the contest after The Guardian quoted him stating that the party had planned "to introduce a period of creative destruction in the public services".
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Danny Kruger left his position at The Daily Telegraph to become the chief speechwriter to then Conservative Party leader David Cameron in 2006.
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Danny Kruger wrote Cameron's 2006 address to the think-tank Centre for Social Justice, which was later dubbed the "hug-a-hoodie" speech, and was noted as a call to re-brand the party with compassionate conservatism at its core.
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Danny Kruger co-founded the London-based youth crime prevention charity Only Connect in 2006 and in 2008 left his position as Cameron's chief speechwriter to work full-time for the charity.
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Danny Kruger founded the charity West London Zone, which aims to provide support to at-risk youth.
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Danny Kruger was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to charity in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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Danny Kruger supported Brexit in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum.
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Danny Kruger was a senior fellow at the pro-Brexit think-tank Legatum Institute, which he left in 2018 to become an adviser at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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Danny Kruger was selected as a parliamentary candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Devizes on 9 November 2019.
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Danny Kruger was elected as MP for Devizes in the 2019 general election, with a majority of 23,993.
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Danny Kruger made his maiden speech on 29 January 2020, in which he called for a return to Christian values.
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Danny Kruger apologised and stated that he "simply forgot", but criticised the photographer for not asking him to put on a mask.
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Danny Kruger has referred to his dislike for "absurd masks" in an interview with local media.
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In May 2021 Danny Kruger wrote an essay entitled "Restoring Rights, Reclaiming Liberty" for inclusion in Common Sense: Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age published by the Common Sense Group, an informal group of Conservative MPs.
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Danny Kruger was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in September 2021.
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On 6 July 2022, as part of the crisis of confidence in Boris Johnson of 2022, Danny Kruger resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
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Danny Kruger endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.
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Danny Kruger was fined after his puppy caused a stampede when it chased a 200-strong herd of deer in London's Richmond Park in March 2021.
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Danny Kruger apologised and said he would be more careful in future.