PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak needs to appoint a minister for men to tackle the high number of males who die each year by suicide, according to Tory MP Nick Fletcher.

He told GB News: “People realise that if you have happier men, you have happier boys. Then obviously we have happier women in our lives too, so it’s a win-win.

“It’s not an either or. I completely champion Maria Caulfield in her position as Minister for Women. She’s doing some fantastic work for women and girls, and long may that continue.

“But we do need someone to get hold of these statistics, take a proper look at them and join all the departments together and find out what we can do to help all the young boys and all the young men and all the men within our society, because unfortunately this moment in time, we are failing them.”

In a discussion with Martin Daubney, he continued: “We just need a minister to put men’s issues forward. There has been an awful lot of good work in this field.

“It’s fantastic that I’ve got this position as a Member of Parliament to champion this. I don’t want to take anything away from women at all.

“All I want to do is make sure that we’ve got somebody who is looking out for the boys and men in our lives.”

He added: “Money is not the answer to everything, as a true Conservative I believe that’s what we should all be looking at. Money is not the answer.

“We just need an ambassador, we just need a voice, and we just need society as a whole to care and just think twice about the men in our lives.”