Mel Stride

The Right Honourable Mel Stride MP
Official portrait, 2024
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 November 2024
Leader	Kemi Badenoch
Preceded by	Jeremy Hunt
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
In office 8 July 2024 – 4 November 2024
Leader	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Liz Kendall
Succeeded by	Helen Whately
Ministerial offices 2015‍–‍2024 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions In office 25 October 2022 – 5 July 2024 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Preceded by Chloe Smith Succeeded by Liz Kendall Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council In office 23 May 2019 – 24 July 2019 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Andrea Leadsom Succeeded by Jacob Rees-Mogg Financial Secretary to the Treasury Paymaster General In office 13 June 2017 – 23 May 2019 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Ben Gummer Jane Ellison Succeeded by Jesse Norman Comptroller of the Household In office 17 July 2016 – 12 June 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May Preceded by Gavin Barwell Succeeded by Chris Pincher Lord Commissioner of the Treasury In office 13 May 2015 – 17 July 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron Preceded by Harriett Baldwin Succeeded by Andrew Griffiths
Chair of the Treasury Select Committee
In office 23 October 2019 – 25 October 2022
Preceded by	Nicky Morgan
Succeeded by	Harriett Baldwin
Member of Parliament for Central Devon
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Constituency created
Majority	61 (0.1%)
Personal details
Born	(1961-09-30) 30 September 1961 (age 63) Ealing, Middlesex, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Michelle Stride
Children	3
Alma mater	St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA)
Website	Official website

Melvyn John Stride^[1] (born 30 September 1961)^[2] is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch’s Shadow Cabinet since November 2024.^[3] 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. After the Conservative Party's loss in the 2024 general election, Stride became the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in Sunak's shadow cabinet. He later launched his bid to become Leader of the Conservative Party but was eliminated on the second MP's ballot. Upon Kemi Badenoch's victory in the 2024 leadership election, Stride was appointed as Shadow Chancellor in her shadow cabinet.