"Kruger wants to restore the primacy of parliament over the Blairite legalistic state, where international law, a politicised judiciary and unelected quangocrats hold sway"
The Spectator: 9th January 2026 : Tim Shipman explains the extent to which Reform UK has bought into 'the Starkey thesis' and how they are going about delivering it.
"...[Danny] Kruger... may be the most significant politician the public has barely heard of... [with] one of the most pivotal jobs in British politics – preparing Reform for government...
Reform is conscious that much of what they want to do... will be opposed by the Establishment. ‘Half the work is: what are the things that we’re going to need to do?’ says Yusuf. ‘The other half is: how do you get the patient to take the medicine? Most of the non-democratic institutions in this country are going to be at the very least ambivalent, in many cases hostile.’...
...Working out how to achieve the biggest shake-up in government since Haldane is Kruger’s job.
Kruger says 'We’re about restoration, not revolution – returning to parliamentary accountability, ministerial responsibility, cabinet government. These are quite old-fashioned principles. We are essentially undoing the Blairite inheritance.’
Kruger plans to make a speech later in the year setting out a clear message to the deep state. ‘I want to say to the system: “You shouldn’t try and oppose us. We’re not Lenin-ists, we’re conservatives, we’re restorationists... We’re not going to destroy the country. So you shouldn’t want to block us, but if you do we will use the power of democracy to blow you away if we have to.”’