Grant Shapps
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The Right Honourable Grant Shapps MP |
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| Minister of State for International Development | |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 28 November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nick Hurd (Undersecretary) |
| Minister without Portfolio | |
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In office 4 September 2012 – 11 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Warsi |
| Succeeded by | Robert Halfon |
| Chairman of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 4 September 2012 – 11 May 2015 Serving with The Lord Feldman of Elstree |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Warsi |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Feldman of Elstree |
| Minister of State for Housing and Local Government | |
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In office 13 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by |
John Healey (Housing) Rosie Winterton (Local Government) |
| Succeeded by | Mark Prisk |
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Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Melanie Johnson |
| Majority | 12,153 (22.4%) |
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14 September 1968 Croxley Green, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Belinda Goldstone |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Religion | Judaism |
Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician, former Minister of State at the Department for International Development. A former co-chairman of the Conservative Party, he is the member of parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in England. He first won the seat as Grant V Shapps in the general election of 5 May 2005. Shapps was returned to parliament in the May 2010 election with a majority of 17,423, which fell to 12,153 in 2015. On 9 June 2010, Shapps was appointed as a Privy Counsellor.
On 4 September 2012, he was appointed Conservative Party Co-Chairman, replacing Baroness Warsi; he was also appointed Minister without portfolio in the Cabinet Office. His salary was paid by the party. On 11 May 2015, Shapps lost his positions as Conservative party co-chairman and minister without portfolio at the Cabinet Office, and was instead appointed minister of state at the Department for International Development. On 28 November 2015, he stood down from his ministerial appointment due to allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party.
Shapps was born in Croxley Green, Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Jewish family. He was educated at Yorke Mead Primary School, Watford Grammar School for Boys, and Cassio College. He completed a business and finance course at Manchester Polytechnic, and received a Higher National Diploma. Shapps was also National President of the Jewish youth organisation BBYO. In 1989, according to Shapps, he was in a car crash in Kansas, United States, that left him in a coma for a week.
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