Shapps Grant

Biography

Grant Shapps was born September 14, 1968 in the village of Croxley Green into a Jewish family.

The politician was educated at York Mead Grammar School and Cassio College in Watford, where he studied business and finance. He then completed a course in business and finance at Manchester Polytechnic. In addition, Shapps was president of the Jewish youth organization BBYO.

Before being elected to the House of Commons in 2005, he worked in commercial enterprises.

In 2007, Grant Shapps was given the position of Shadow Secretary for Housing and Planning, and in 2010, the post of Minister of State for Housing and Local Government.

In the 2012 cabinet reshuffle, he became co-chairman of the Conservative Party.

In May 2015, Shapps was removed from his cabinet position and became Minister of State for International Development. In November 2015, he resigned from this post due to conflicts within the Conservative Party.

In 18 years of political career, Grant Shapps got into three major scandals:

During the 2015 election campaign, it was revealed that he, with the help of the Sockpuppet Contributions account, had changed his Wikipedia biography to exclude references to school performance, political gaffes and sponsor personalities.

In November 2015, Shapps resigned as Minister of State over allegations of mocking subordinates. As party co-chair, he ignored repeated accusations of it from party youth organiser Mark Clarke. These actions by Shapps could have caused the suicide of young party member Elliot Johnson.

In August 2018, the Financial Times reported that the politician had discovered an undeclared payment from the British company OpenBrix.

In August 2023, he was appointed British Minister of Defense. Loyalty to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak played a significant role in the appointment of the Minister of Defense. The opposition has already criticized Benn Wallace's successor: according to Labor, the armed forces need a decisive and experienced leader, and did not "sing along" with the head of government.