THE mother of Devizes MP Danny Kruger says she has received a “dose of toxic hate” on social media after her son commented on a landmark abortion ruling by American Supreme Court judges.

Television personality Prue Leith, from Channel 4’s the Great British Bake Off, says her son was “unwise enough” to join a debate in the House of Commons following the decision to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling.

Mr Kruger said he didn’t think women should have complete ‘bodily autonomy’ in the case of abortion as there’s another body – the baby’s – involved.

Writing in The Spectator, Prue Leith said: “I don’t agree with him, any more than I agree with his stance on assisted dying. He’s anti, I’m in favour. But that’s fine. I still love and admire him.

“There’s more to him that the Twitter storm allows: he’s spent his whole career worrying about disadvantaged communities: as a student he led a convoy of vans full of blankets and medicines to Croatia, he spent ten years running a prison charity, as a policy wonk he’s always been mainly concerned with what is now called ‘levelling up', and now works for Michael Gove.

“Yet I’m accused of spawning a monster. Also of failing to reel him in (he’s nearly 50!), of being an uncaring, self-serving Tory bitch (I’ve voted Conservative once in 60 odd years), of sending him to Eton (guilty as charged).

“It’s really upsetting. My Twitter account is awash with this poison, but his must be much worse. No wonder so many MPs quit.

“I’ve been trying to decide where I stand on the abortion issue and it’s not simple. Yes, I think women should decide if they want to have a baby or not. The morning-after pill negates the difficult business of getting the guy to wear a condom or continually swallowing daily birth control pills.

“It aborts the incipient foetus before it has really got going. And best of all it’s available on the internet: no disapproving doctors; no need to tell your mother – or the baby’s father. So why does the casual acceptance that a womb is like a garden where weeds are routinely yanked out make me feel so uneasy?”

“You don’t have to be a Christian to think there is something wrong with a society where women expect to have an abortion every few years. But I don’t like the idea of women being denied an abortion either.”

To read her full article in The Spectator, click here.