Mel Stride becomes fourth Tory MP to announce leadership bid – UK politics live

Former work and pensions secretary joins James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick in announcing he will stand

People should take what the Care Quality Commission (CQC) says “with a pinch of salt”, Wes Streeting has said.

The health secretary said he was “brutally honest” with the public before the election that problems with the NHS would “take time to fix”, but he had not anticipated that the regulator would have “failed to such an extent”.

I don’t think we need to manage the public’s expectations because to be fair to the public, whether it’s on the economy or the NHS or the other big challenges we’ve inherited, people know that they’re going to take time to fix. We were honest with people ahead of the election.”