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Mel Stride
Sir Melvyn John Stride (born 30 September 1961) is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010.
He previously served in the May Government as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 2017 to 2019 and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from May to July 2019. From 2019 to 2022 he sat as a backbencher, serving as Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. From October 2022 to July 2024, during the government of Rishi Sunak, Stride served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2024 general election, Stride was appointed Sunak's Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. On Sunak's departure he launched his bid to become Leader of the Conservative Party, but was eliminated on the second ballot of MPs. Following Kemi Badenoch's victory in the 2024 leadership election she appointed Stride as Shadow Chancellor.
Melvyn Stride was born in Ealing, in London, on 30 September 1961. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, a private day school in the city of Portsmouth on England's South Coast, and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Edmund Hall, at the University of Oxford, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union.
In 1987, Stride set up a business jointly controlled with his wife, Venture Marketing Group, specialising in trade exhibitions, conferences and publishing, which was expanded to the United States. The US company was sold, and Stride resigned as director of the company in 2007. He was a director of several companies, resigning from the last of them in December 2020.
Stride was selected as the prospective Conservative candidate for Central Devon in June 2006 after his name was added to the new Conservative A-List in 2006; he was the first A-Lister to be selected.
At the 2010 general election, Stride was elected as MP for Central Devon with 51.5% of the vote and a majority of 9,230.
On 28 October 2011, Stride was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes.
At the 2015 general election, Stride was re-elected as MP for Central Devon with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 21,265. Stride was promoted to the frontbench as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury after the election. Stride was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.
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Mel Stride
Sir Melvyn John Stride (born 30 September 1961) is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010.
He previously served in the May Government as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 2017 to 2019 and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from May to July 2019. From 2019 to 2022 he sat as a backbencher, serving as Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. From October 2022 to July 2024, during the government of Rishi Sunak, Stride served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2024 general election, Stride was appointed Sunak's Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. On Sunak's departure he launched his bid to become Leader of the Conservative Party, but was eliminated on the second ballot of MPs. Following Kemi Badenoch's victory in the 2024 leadership election she appointed Stride as Shadow Chancellor.
Melvyn Stride was born in Ealing, in London, on 30 September 1961. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, a private day school in the city of Portsmouth on England's South Coast, and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Edmund Hall, at the University of Oxford, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union.
In 1987, Stride set up a business jointly controlled with his wife, Venture Marketing Group, specialising in trade exhibitions, conferences and publishing, which was expanded to the United States. The US company was sold, and Stride resigned as director of the company in 2007. He was a director of several companies, resigning from the last of them in December 2020.
Stride was selected as the prospective Conservative candidate for Central Devon in June 2006 after his name was added to the new Conservative A-List in 2006; he was the first A-Lister to be selected.
At the 2010 general election, Stride was elected as MP for Central Devon with 51.5% of the vote and a majority of 9,230.
On 28 October 2011, Stride was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes.
At the 2015 general election, Stride was re-elected as MP for Central Devon with an increased vote share of 52.2% and an increased majority of 21,265. Stride was promoted to the frontbench as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury after the election. Stride was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum.