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Grant Shapps MP

Posts by Grant Shapps MP

Grant Shapps is Transport Secretary, and is MP for Welwyn Hatfield.

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Grant Shapps: Why I’m in Manchester today to help kick-start better, greener and more modern transport for the North

Our initiative will bring together Ministers, Mayors and council leaders, to thrash out ways of building new infrastructure during the life of this parliament.

Comment, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 23 July 2020 at 3:50 am | 73 comments

Grant Shapps: Thomas Cook’s collapse – and how we successfully carried out the biggest-ever repatriation operation in peacetime.

We brought home 150,000 passengers, on 746 different flights to ten airports around the country. And 94 pc flew back on their scheduled departure date.

Comment, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 8 October 2019 at 6:20 am | 40 comments

Grant Shapps: Homes fit for today’s heroes

Later today, we launch the Homes for Heroes Foundation. It aims to ensure that Britain has the finest housing package for returning armed forces of any country in the world.

Comment | By Grant Shapps MP | 9 February 2016 at 10:30 am | 14 comments

Grant Shapps MP: British ingenuity is bringing energy to hundreds of millions of Africans

In the second piece of this week’s series on aid, the International Development Minister describes a new scheme that uses technology to transform lives.

Comment, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 10 November 2015 at 6:30 am | 9 comments

Grant Shapps MP: Our employment success in five points

Here is our simple, positive, Conservative message on jobs – for when you are knocking on doors in the weeks ahead.

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 11 March 2015 at 6:30 am | 12 comments

Grant Shapps MP: Ten reasons Labour must be stopped

The Opposition would threaten economic chaos.

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 17 February 2015 at 7:15 am | 66 comments

Grant Shapps MP: Don’t let Miliband pick your pocket

Labour plans new taxes on your family home and your pension – and he and Balls would like to tax death too.

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 13 January 2015 at 6:45 am | 36 comments

Grant Shapps: Welcome to this year’s Party Conference

What keeps us coming back is friendship and loyalty. Now let’s press on to next year’s election.

Comment, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 28 September 2014 at 10:00 am | 23 comments

Grant Shapps MP: A hundred ways in which the Conservatives have delivered for you

We are building a stronger, more competitive economy. And if you work hard, we are on your side. You’ll hear more about this in the Queen’s Speech today.

Columnists, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 4 June 2014 at 7:00 am | 43 comments

Grant Shapps: If Miliband is so worried about prices, why is he happy to see Council Tax rise?

Labour are intensely relaxed about local government getting filthy rich at taxpayers’ expense.

Columnists, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 9 May 2014 at 6:30 am | 17 comments

Grant Shapps MP: The extraordinary things Labour are saying about Ed Miliband

Some of Ed’s fiercest critics are in his own team. And it’s getting worse.

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 3 April 2014 at 6:40 am | 19 comments

Grant Shapps MP: Labour’s failure to build homes in Wales – and the housing choice we all face

Voters in 2015 can plump for the Conservatives and higher house-building in England or Miliband’s party – and its record of house-building failure in Wales.

Columnists, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 5 March 2014 at 7:00 am | 24 comments

Grant Shapps: How Cameron is following in the footsteps of Thatcher

As in 1983, the choice is is stark: either to continue progress towards recovery, or to follow extreme and damaging Labour policies

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 4 February 2014 at 6:45 am | 51 comments

Grant Shapps: A blast on the trumpet for Full Orchestra Conservatism

The sweeping breadth of reform being championed by Conservative MPs is now so commonplace that it is hardly remarked upon in the newspapers.

Columnists, Highlights | By Grant Shapps MP | 15 January 2014 at 7:00 am | 64 comments

Grant Shapps: Five simple messages for the doorstep this Christmas

The Conservatives are on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing. Labour haven’t changed and would put Britain’s recovery at risk.

Columnists | By Grant Shapps MP | 18 December 2013 at 6:45 am | 30 comments

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