HEREFORD'S MP could put his name forward to become prime minister, but he's asking his constituents what they think first.

Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, said he's been asked a lot if he would stand and took to Twitter last night (Monday) to answer the question - but after 33 tweets, it's still not clear.

If Mr Norman did throw his hat into the ring, he would become the 10th person to announce their intention to be the next leader of the Conservative party.

He said there needs to be "an intelligent, warm, inclusive campaign" that addresses Brexit but also brings people from across the county together.

"Ever since I was elected, my goal has been to put this county, and the needs and views of my constituents from Hereford to Ross to all our villages and hamlets, on the national map," he said.

"This is one further step in that direction. That is why I am now consulting with my colleagues, party members and constituents about potentially standing for the Conservative leadership.

"We should be ambitious not for ourselves, but for our country: for the future of this extraordinary, warm, funny, tolerant, open, traditional, kind, inclusive, mad, conflicted, joyous United Kingdom of ours, from Lands End to John O'Groats, Enniskillen to the Wash.

"It is incumbent upon all politicians, ministers or backbenchers, across political divides, to step up and deliver a sane and workable Brexit for our country. But it is no less important, now more than ever, that all the candidates for the leadership should be able to set out not just their own policy ideas, beliefs and experience, but the deeper principles and purpose that underlie them.

"Whatever one's politics, we need the candidates to use the public platform, the hustings, the debates, the soapbox and interviews not to bring each other down but to build mutual understanding and trust and love, to find and renew a sense of common purpose, for the longer term."

Theresa May will step down as the prime minister on June 7, with Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab and Jeremy Hunt among the favourites to take over. Mrs May said she felt she had done all she could to take the UK out of the European Union with a deal.

With the majority of Herefordshire voting to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum, Mr Norman said it's not good enough that little progress has been made.

He added: "It was obvious Brexit would affect people in hugely different ways, and that it would be incredibly divisive, as I said at the time.

"I felt I could best serve people by acting for them as a whole. The same is true today. As an MP, I have voted consistently for Brexit, and without delay. My constituency voted to leave, like the country at large, over three years ago.

"It is simply not good enough that we have still not moved on since then."