Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.
Grant Shapps is Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP for Welwyn Hatfield ConHome readers already know that volunteers play a crucial part in our party’s operation. They are the lifeblood of the Conservatives – standing shoulder to shoulder with our party professionals, candidates and MPs – many of whom have volunteered for years themselves. […]
Grant Shapps is Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP for Welwyn Hatfield MPs return from recess this morning with less than two years of this Parliament to go. It's unfortunate that given the alleged conduct of the few, there’s a cloud hanging over Westminster today. It’s exactly the sort of thing that angers the […]
Housing minister Grant Shapps MP kicks off a seven part series of articles by Conservative MPs, each discussing the Coalition's policies to get more people into good homes. Follow Grant on Twitter. It is simply not acceptable that people in an advanced, civilised society can go without one of the most basic human needs: that […]
Grant Shapps MP is Housing Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Many Council and Housing Association tenants take tremendous pride in their home, and it’s about time we recognised and expanded this kind of responsibility. ‘Tenant Cashback’ will allow house-proud residents to take over more of their repairs budget and carry out […]
By Grant Shapps, Housing Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government Readers of this may have heard of the Stockholm Syndrome – it describes how hostages held by a gang of Swedish bank robbers in 1973 began to sympathise with their captors. It is now an accepted psychological term – and it describes […]