Covenant v. Contract

Danny Kruger's program to revive Britain

Danny Kruger was elected Conservative MP for Wiltshire in 2019. Last year, he joined a couple of dozen other Conservatives who’ve switched to Reform. The Conservative and Labour parties are adrift, and the hole in the dike is getting bigger. PM Nigel Farage may materialize sooner than later.

Back in 2023, Kruger, an Evangelical, produced a manifesto of sorts for the new British conservatism, entitled Covenant. Covenant, that is, as opposed to the social contract of Locke, Hobbes, and contemporary liberalism. A social covenant forms an “artificial brotherhood” that unites people who are not related by blood, as marriage forms a bond between previously unrelated people (unless you’re in the American South or a member of an old European aristocratic family).