"Conservative leadership hopeful Sir Malcolm Rifkind has admitted he has "a problem" with people thinking he is much older than his actual 59 years.
The ex-foreign secretary said he was the same generation as David Davis, 56, and was full of "vitality and energy".
"A lot of people think that because I was a colleague of Ken Clarke(65) and Michael Howard(64) that I am the same age - I'm not," he told ITN.
The misconception came because he was made a senior minister at a young age.
Sir Malcolm was replying to comments put to him from ex- Daily Telegraph editor Max Hastings that he was "too old" to be the new Tory leader.
"I have still got an enormous amount of vitality and energy as Max Hastings and others will find out," Mr Rifkind told interviewer Alastair Stewart.
I guess that the chance of leading the Tories outweighs any embarrassment, but even so...
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