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Conservative Party MP, Daniel Rayne Kruger MBE has used his maiden speech in the House of Commons to defend Christianity and to argue that Christianity helped shape Britain for the better.

Daniel who is nicknamed Danny became the MP for Devizes in Wiltshire after the 2019 general election, Mr Kruger said that Britain had moved away from its shared Christian heritage and claimed that many of today’s problems could be solved by bringing Christianity back to the forefront of British culture.

Mr Kruger who use to wrote speeches for former Prime Minister David Cameron said that “traditionally”, British people had had a sense that we are all capable of both great wrong and great virtue.

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He continued: “And even for those who didn’t believe in God, there was a sense that our country is rooted in Christianity, that our liberties derive from the Christian idea of absolute human dignity.

“And today these ideas are losing their purchase.

“So we are trying to find a new set of values to guide us, a new language of rights and wrongs, and a new idea of identity, based not on our universal inner value, or on our membership of a common culture, but on our particular differences.”

He spoke of the inheritance the British people had taken on, claiming that he was not blind to Christianity and the Western past having been stained by past violence and injustice, however, he said he was “not sure we should so casually throw away the inheritance of our culture”.

Concluding the MP said: “As we advance at speed into a bewildering world where we are forced to ask the most profound questions about the limits of autonomy and what it means to be human, we may have reasons to look about for the old ways and seek wisdom in the old ideas which are in my view entirely timeless.”