How instructive to meet Danny Kruger, the Conservative MP for Devizes, who is probably better known for being Prue Leith’s son. Of wholesome appearance, his least appealing characteristics appeared, until last week, to be his previous dedication to David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, whose rule-breaking he defended.
It emerges, however, that this particular Etonian believes that his own sex should be free, collectively, to coerce women into unwanted pregnancies. Speaking after a number of female MPs, who wanted the UK to signal its disapproval of the reversal of Roe v Wade, Kruger said he didn’t understand why they were “lecturing the United States” on this judgment. “They think that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy in this matter. However, I think that, in the case of abortion, that right is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.” Though by far the most celebrated, this isn’t the first sermon Kruger has delivered on the subject. He opposed decriminalisation in Northern Ireland, is against buffer zones and last year informed MPs: “It says a very, very terrible thing about the value that we place on an unborn life if we simply say that it should be determined by whether or not the mother would like to keep it.” Were female constituents aware, when Kruger was parachuted into Devizes (replacing Claire Perry), that he considers mothers consultants to their own pregnancies?
