Danny Kruger

Profile: Full name: Daniel Kruger Area of interest: Politics - issues concerning: Public services - Education and Health, Law and order, Localisation, "Big Society" Journals/Organisation: Financial Times Email: Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/danny-kruger Blog: Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/danny__kruger | http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/danny-kruger/45/751/900

Biography: About: 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/role: No regular column or position: resigned as Chief Leader Writer at The Daily Telegraph to become special adviser to David Cameron, see below... Other roles/Main role: Chief Executive of Only Connect Other activities: Disclosures: 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 Broadcast media: Video: 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 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: His mother is Prue Leith (OBE), celebrity chef and chair of the Schools Food Trust

Books & Debate: 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 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

Financial Times: Column name: Remit/Info: Politics - issues concerning: Public services - Education and Health, Law and order, Localisation Section: Comment / Opinion Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: Website: Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: writes occasionally Column format: Average length:

Articles: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/16/divided-conservatives-david-cameron David Cameron's statecrafty revolution] - The rumoured 'rift' between George Osborne and Steve Hilton is actually a creative divide that reflects the PM's own character - The Guardian, 16th November 2011 Cameron should work to return capitalism to citizens - The European project and the ‘paper-shuffling’ economy are born of the same anti-social impulse, the same contempt for the old and natural - 3rd October 2011 No time to relax Cameron, tackle our malaise - The crises of the summer present an opportunity to reach if not altitude in the rhetoric, at least depth in the analysis - 30th August 2011 Cameron’s U-turn on justice betrays a great Tory reform - 24th June 2011 The Tories’ tizzy over tails misses the mark - 22nd April 2011 Death by a thousand cuts for Big Society - 6th February 2011

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Links: Conservative Home: GoldList candidate: Danny Kruger Wikiquote David Cameron's band of Etonian brothers The Independent, May 2007 Daniel Kruger joins leader's office