Reform MP Danny Kruger has announced that the party wants to “reset” Britain’s sexual culture as he attacked the levels of divorce in the UK.
Mr Kruger, who made a name opposing the assisted dying bill and is preparing the party for government, should it win the next general election, claimed that the UK is “suffering from having a totally unregulated sexual economy”.
The former Tory MP, who defected last year, claimed that changes to divorce laws brought in by the Conservatives, such as no-fault divorces, “basically means that your vows don’t matter”, and suggested he would support reversing the change.
He told House magazine that he expected Reform to have a “limited but important role” in resetting sexual culture and undoing the sexual revolution of the 1960s. He also suggested the party would support incentives for women to have more children as the UK’s birth rate declines.
His comments come just 24 hours after the party’s leader Nigel Farage claimed at a press conference in Dover that he wanted to leave ethical issues to the “individual conscience” of MPs.
Mr Kruger is well known for his strong Christian views, and his suggestions chime with announcements this week that Reform would defend Britain’s Christian heritage.
He confirmed that Reform is “pronatalist” in that it wants people to have more children and intends to have a government led by Mr Farage that would support them in doing that.
Lamenting the level of divorce in the UK, he said: “Marriage traditionally was the means by which sexual relations between men and women were regulated, and I think we are suffering from having a totally unregulated sexual economy.
“I’m not interested in your love life, or anything about your personal life – that is your business. But I am interested in the framework in which you make your decisions, and I’d like the framework to be more pro-social. If you want – most people do want – to settle down with one person to have children, we should make that easier.”
He claimed that changes to divorce laws in recent years, such as no-fault divorces, which mean spouses no longer have to cite adultery, separation or unreasonable behaviour to justify a divorce, “basically means that your vows don’t matter”. But he admitted, “I don’t know whether we’d be able to reverse it. I don’t think that would be party policy, to change that.”
The Reform MP is a close ally of theologian James Orr, who has been put in charge of drawing up Reform’s policies. The two met US vice-president JD Vance last year, who shares their views.
Mr Kruger is known to be interested in right-wing Hungarian premier Viktor Orban’s model of encouraging women to have more children, including generous tax breaks and subsidised mortgages for those with three or more children.
He told House magazine: “Yes, we have a pronatalist ambition. We want people to have more children, and we think the government should get behind that wish.”
But he denied that Reform is a divisive party.
“The total opposite is the case. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country,” he said.
“The Reform slogan is family, community, country. We’re talking about the associations that give us meaning and identity and security and a sense of belonging. I think that’s where the country is now going – away from a doctrine of total liberal individualism.”
