THE newly-elected Wyre Forest Conservative Association (WFCA) chairman wants more young people involved in politics - and a Tory Wyre Forest MP in Westminster.

Ken Prosser, a married father-of-three, also said he wants the association's more than 350 members to have greater involvement in decision-making but added it was "early days."

Members' unanimously elected Mr Prosser, unopposed, as chairman at an annual meeting at Margaret Thatcher House, Kidderminster, on March 10.

He said: "I'd like to concentrate on getting more youth members.

"I think to be quite honest we need young people interested in voting again.

"What I would really like to do is make the membership more involved than they are at the moment."

He added the district association members' main aim was still to get a Tory Wyre Forest MP elected to Westminster in the next General Election.

Mr Prosser, 66, was born in the Black Country moving to Kidderminster in 1957 to start his finance career as a budding bank clerk at the town's Westminster Bank branch.

He set up independent financial advice firm Prosser Knowles in Church Street, 20 years ago, before joining the district Conservative association in 1996.

For the past several years he has chaired the group's Sutton Park branch, in Kidderminster, but has since stepped down to take up his new role.

He takes over as association chairman from Phil Green, who served a full four-year term in the position.

Mr Green said he was pleased to be handing over to a man who would "take the association forward."

He added: "I have been proud to serve the WFCA for four years and it has been a great pleasure to be involved in the association at a time when we have made huge gains in the district council, at the Parliamentary level, and have increased our membership to make us one of the biggest clubs in Wyre Forest."

Mr Prosser, of Sutton Park Road, is married to wife Anthea and has a son Andrew Prosser, 42, and two daughters, Sally Miles, 40, and Annabelle Parkes, 35.