Danny Kruger’s speech has gone viral. Is this a turning point?

Danny Kruger MP’s impassioned speech to an empty House of Commons chamber on the need to restore the UK’s Christian heritage has been viewed more than 3 millions times. It’s a roadmap for a Christian counter-revolution, says David Campanale 

Later this year, events will be held in Kingston upon Thames to mark the 1100th anniversary of the coronation of Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan, on 4 September 925AD. Grandson of King Alfred the Great, Athelstan can claim to be the first King of all Britain. 

Anglo-Saxon scholar, Professor Michael Wood, marks this date for its significance in the Orthodox calendar: it is “the feast of Moses the Lawgiver: a very important figure in the eyes of Alfred and Althelstan who had a vision of England as a Christian kingdom under a version of Mosaic Law.” 

Not just a “vision” and more of a covenantal reality, the royal line of Christian Anglo-Saxon kings crowned in Kingston was decided by means of oaths to embrace the pattern of the “blessings and curses”, illustrated in Leviticus 26 and set out in the ‘Covenant Code’ of Exodus 21:1 – 22:16. Alfred and Athelstan acted to bring their nascent kingdom into the promises of God, extended by means of the New Covenant, from Israel to all nations.  

Addressing our current moment, Conservative MP Danny Kruger has issued a powerful challenge – albeit in an empty Commons chamber about to rise for the summer – that Britain should grasp how the nation is bound by Alfred’s ancient Covenant.

As Kruger put it, “Uniquely among the nations of the world, this nation—England, from which the United Kingdom grew—was founded and created consciously on the basis of the Bible and the story of the Hebrew people.  In that sense, England is the oldest Christian country and the prototype of nations across the West.”