PA MediaConservative MP Danny Kruger has become the first sitting Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.Kruger has been an MP since 2019, and sits on Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's team as a shadow work and pensions minister."The Conservatives are over," he told a press conference, sitting alongside Reform party leader Nigel Farage.Kruger said he had been "honoured" to be asked to help Reform prepare for government, and said he hoped that Farage would be the next prime minister.The East Wiltshire MP - a former political secretary to Boris Johnson when he was prime minister - said the Conservatives were no longer the main party of opposition.He said: "There have been moments when I have been very proud to belong to the Tory party", but added: "The rule of our time in office was failure. "Bigger government, social decline, lower wages, higher taxes and less of what ordinary people actually wanted."Although he said he had "great regard" for Badenoch, he said the Tory party was "divided" and had a "toxic brand".Describing his move as "personally painful", he said his "mission" with Reform would be to "not just to overthrow the current system, it is to restore the system we need".Kruger is the second sitting MP to join Reform UK. Lee Anderson, who was previously a Tory MP, sat as an independent before joining Reform in 2024.