FAILED Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom may have signed her own resignation letter as a minister just hours after taking on the role of Environment Secretary after she warned that male nannies could be paedophiles.

Ms Leadsom, who quit the Tory run-off after saying in a Times interview that she would make a better leader than Theresa May because she was a mother, insisted parents needed to be cautious when dealing with childcare.

In a further extract from the interview, published yesterday, she is quoted as saying: “Let’s face it, most of us don’t employ men as nannies. Most of us don’t. Now you can call that sexist. I call that cautious and very sensible, when you look at the stats.