Mel Stride, shadow work and pensions secretary, has thrown his hat into the ring to be the next Tory leader.

Mel Stride has called out one “untenable” detail about Conservative Party voters – their age.

The Tory leadership hopeful, former work and pensions secretary who now holds the same role in the shadow cabinet, said the party needs to spend time “working out the answer to a lot of fundamental and difficult questions”.

Speaking to Times Radio on Wednesday, he said that includes “the fact that the average Conservative voter is age 63.”

He continued: “That is completely untenable.

“It is not something that you can solve by leaping onto some magical ideological square.

“It is something you solve through deep, hard work over a sustained........

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