Right-wing historian Andrew Roberts has spoken out against the promotion of "non-Tory" black people, women and homosexuals in the party.

Interviewed in the latest edition of the far right-wing magazine Right Now!, Roberts says: "Again and again, when the modernisers tell us that we've got to have more blacks, gays and women in the higher echelons of the party, it seems that the blacks, gays and women who they promote aren't Tories.

"If we do want to try and create a new image for the party, we shouldn't be doing it with non-Tories."