'Adding VAT to private school fees could weaken our armed forces'
I had my first - who knows, maybe my last - outing at the dispatch box this month, in my capacity as shadow defence minister.
Danny Kruger MP: Spend Stonehenge tunnel money on our defence budget
A MEANINGFUL threat to the safety of the country is currently waging war in eastern Europe, and threatening to attack NATO.
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Danny Kruger MP: The future of shooting on Salisbury Plain is at risk
This is a lament. As the MP for a big part of Salisbury Plain, with at least four major shoots operating in my constituency - the Royal Artillery, the Netheravon, the Infantry, and the Tidworth and Bulford Garrison Shoots - I had hoped to be able to avert a Defra-inflicted disaster on the rural community here.
Danny Kruger: 'Expectation that politics will be less lurid in 2023'
Parliament returned this month from the Christmas recess and the expectation is that politics in 2023 will be less lurid than in 2022.
Kruger: 'We need better broadband, better transport, and more affordable housing'
30,000 soldiers - more than a third of the British Army - are based here in Wiltshire, many of them recently returned from Germany. I had a very productive meeting this month with Colonel Gary McDade, Army Commander South West, in Jellalabad Barracks in Tidworth, discussing the welfare of soldiers and, crucially, their families.
OPINION: 'I really hope we don’t need another national lockdown'
It has been a busy month, as MPs returned from recess.
OPINION: 'The lockdown is slowly easing, but we still need to be careful'
One of the consolations of lockdown for me has been the opportunity to watch a whole season pass. For you long-term Wiltshire-men and -women this will seem perfectly normal, but I don’t think I have spent two uninterrupted months in the countryside since I was a child.
OPINION: This is a huge sacrifice, but a necessary one
On Monday the Prime Minister announced the closure of all places where people can gather. This is a deep blow but a necessary one.
