Danny Kruger



Profile:
Full name: Daniel Kruger

Area of interest: Politics - issues concerning: Public services - Education and Health, Law and order, Localisation

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

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Biography:
Education: Eton College; University of Edinburgh: MA; University of Oxford: PhD in 18th Century British Political History

Career: Director of Studies at the Centre for Policy Studies, 2001/2003; speechwriter for Iain Duncan Smith during his last two months as Tory leader; worked in CCHQ's Policy Unit, 2004/2005; contibutor the The Spectator magazine; resigned as Chief Leader Writer at The Daily Telegraph to become special adviser to David Cameron M.P.

Current position: No regular column or position: resigned as Chief Leader Writer at The Daily Telegraph to become special adviser to David Cameron, see below...

Other posts & involvements: Daniel Kruger joins leader's office

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * David Cameron's Big Idea... is Fraternity
 * The Right Dialectic ...the contest between equality and liberty The Prospect, September 2006
 * DK is co-author of the Direct Democracy agenda see also Direct Democracy

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Controversy/Criticism:
 * BBC News 24: Tory candidate quits over remark: "...creative destruction in the public services", March 2005
 * William Rees-Mogg: How a brilliant young Tory fell on his sword because of a columnist's economic ignorance, March 2005
 * Sean Gabb: The Emperor Has No Clothes criticism of On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality, March 2007

Books:
 * Demos (think tank) Pamphlets:
 * The Wealth and poverty of networks: tackling social exclusion (Demos, 1st January 1997)
 * Access Denied: Preventing information ­exclusion (Demos, 1st January 1998) ISBN 1898309248

Latest work: On Fraternity: Politics Beyond Liberty & Equality, (Civitas, 2007) ISBN 1903386578 - see Civitas: Battle of ideas is not over,

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Other: His mother is Prue Leith (OBE), celebrity chef and chair of the Schools Food Trust 

The Daily Telegraph:
Column name: Danny Kruger - no longer makes regular contributions

Column remit: Politics - issues concerning: Public services - Education and Health, Law and order, Localisation

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Leader writer, Commentator

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Website: Telegraph.co

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Average length: 1050

Links to recent articles: (title/subject/date)
 * Labour is caught between a roquet and a hard place - John Prescott's role - 30th May 2006
 * If councils had real power, people wouldn't dream of voting BNP - Local politics - 24th April 2006
 * Liberty is a subject they won't teach in Brown's nurseries - Chris Tame - 10th April 2006
 * Labour isn't wicked - but it's doing just what the Nazis did - Government legislation / Liberty - 27th March 2006
 * Cameron must see Brown for the Scottish bourgeois he is - Gordon Brown / New Labour "narrative" - 15th February 2006
 * Mr Cameron, a Whig in Tory clothes - Nature of government - 7th February 2006
 * Judas is innocent and Hell is empty - Rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot - 13th January 2006



More links:

 * Conservative Home: GoldList candidate: Danny Kruger
 * Wikiquote
 * David Cameron's band of Etonian brothers The Independent, May 2007