Mel Stride

Melvyn "Mel" Stride (born 30 September 1961) is a British politician who has been the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2024. He joined the government of Rishi Sunak as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on 25 October 2022. He later joined the Kemi Badenoch shadow cabinet in November 2024.

Political career
In October 2011, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes in the government of David Cameron. He was later in the same government as an Assistant Government Whip from July 2014 until May 2015 and as Chief Whip (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) from May 2015 until July 2016.

He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from June 2017 to May 2019 in the government of Theresa May. He was in the same government earlier as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 23 May 2019 to 24 July 2019.

He was Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee from 23 July 2019 to 25 October 2022 in the governments of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

He was elected the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Central Devon in 2010.

On 26 July 2024, Stride announced he was running in the 2024 leadership election to be the new Conservative Party leader and Leader of the Opposition. He was eliminated in the second round of voting on 10 September.

Education
Mel was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Oxford University, where he was elected President of the Oxford Union.

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