Daniel Rayne Kruger[4] MBE (born 23 October 1974)[5] is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Wiltshire, previously Devizes, since 2019.

[14] Kruger was selected as the Conservative candidate for Sedgefield at the 2005 general election, challenging Labour prime minister Tony Blair.

[16][17] He was forced to drop out of the contest, however, after The Guardian quoted him stating that the party had planned "to introduce a period of creative destruction in the public services".

[10] He 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.

[29] He 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.

[31] Defunct Kruger was selected as a parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Devizes, a safe seat for the Conservative Party, on 9 November 2019.

[32] The constituency's incumbent Conservative MP, Claire Perry O'Neill, had previously announced that she would be standing down at the next election to become the president of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, and spend more time with her family.

[44] On 6 July 2022, Kruger resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities as part of a crisis in confidence in Johnson's leadership.

[46] In May 2023, at the National Conservatism Conference, Kruger commented in a speech that "the only basis for a safe and successful society" was marriage between men and women, that they should stick "together for the sake of the children", and that this should be recognised and rewarded.

"[47] He defended his views on the Planet Normal podcast, arguing that "I do think that society has been built and can only really prosper if the basis of it is the principle that if you have children with somebody fit, the ideal is that you stick together with that person through the whole of your child's life.... but as I say there are many occasions where that is not possible.

[51] In October 2023 Kruger claimed on Sky News that many asylum applicants to the UK were pretending to be gay to increase their chances of remaining.

[55][56] Kruger opposed Kim Leadbeater's bill introducing assisted suicide into law and served on the committee examining the legislation.

[65] 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.