Danny Kruger is a writer and politician, currently serving as the British Conservative Party’s Member of Parliament for Devizes in Wiltshire since 2019. Before this, he was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister David Cameron, a columnist and writer for The Daily Telegraph, and was employed by the centre-right think-tank Centre for Policy Studies, among other roles including co-founding the charity Only Connect, a youth crime prevention charity. He was born to South African parents in London, educated at Eton, and received his doctorate in history from the University of Oxford in 2000.