Former Green Party politician Larry Sanders is putting himself forward as a delegate so he can support his brother Bernie's race for the White House.

Earlier this month Larry cast his vote for Bernie, the US presidential hopeful who is taking on Hillary Clinton for the Democrats.

Mr Sanders, 80, from East Oxford is a former social worker, legal adviser and activist who only recently stepped back from frontline county council politics with the Green Party.

Now the 80-year-old said he is putting himself forward as a delegate so he can vote in person for his brother at the Democrat convention in Philadelphia in July.

Speaking after Bernie notched wins in the Utah and Idaho caucuses Mr Sanders said: "If I get selected as a delegate I could formally vote for Bernie in July.

"Bernie is now at the half-way mark in the campaign- he is getting bolder and feels more at home with it all - I think he feels quite presidential now.

"Usually we speak quite regularly on the phone but his schedule is so busy we haven't spoken for a while."

Mr Sanders has been promoting ‘Oxford for Bernie’, one of five campaigns set up in the UK to encourage Americans living abroad to back Sanders-the-younger, Earlier this month he cast his vote at the Rothermere American Institute in Oxford in the Democrats Abroad Global Presidential Primary.

Bernie, 74, is trailing Mrs Clinton, who won the Arizona primary, the biggest prize in Tuesday's presidential nominating contests.