Danny Kruger is right: marriage is the bedrock of society

It didn’t take long for Danny Kruger to get jumped on for stating the obvious. His observation yesterday that ‘The normative family, the mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children, is the only basis for a safe and functioning society. Marriage is not only about you, it’s a public act to live for the sake of someone else’, would once have come into the class of things so obvious as to not need saying.   

It tells you a lot about where we’re at now that this is daringly controversial, divisively edgy. But then once the social consensus was shared by all parts of the political spectrum – John Smith, Tony Blair’s predecessor as leader of the Labour party could have said every word without a qualm. Now it’s something probably Rishi Sunak wouldn’t say.