What Did Grant Shapps Do? Where Is Grant Shapps From?

Grant Shapps is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for the Home Department since 19 October 2022. He previously served as Secretary of State for Transport in the Johnson government from 2019 to 2022.

A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield since the 2005 general election.

In November 2015, he stood down from this post due to allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party.

Since Shapps assumed the role it has exercised greater influence than under his predecessors, with the effective nationalisation of the Northern Trains franchise, the Williams-Shapps Review to move from a rail franchise system to concessionary Great British Railways public body (from 2023), COVID-19 travel restrictions to and from the United Kingdom, and the Integrated Rail Plan published in 2021 which sets out the long-term strategy for rail in northern England and the Midlands. He was named as Home Secretary in October 2022 replacing Suella Braverman.

What Did Grant Shapps Do?

In August 2018, the Financial Times reported[88] that it had discovered a “secret pay deal” between Shapps and OpenBrix, a British blockchain property portal company. The story alleged that Shapps would have received a payment in cryptocurrency tokens with a future value of up to £700,000.

Shapps resigned from OpenBrix and from his position as chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on blockchain which he had founded.

Subsequently, Jo Platt, an opposition politician, called for an enquiry into Shapps’ conduct, although Shapps maintained that he had confirmed with the standards commissioner that he was not required to register the interest, and that he had recorded the conversation with the relevant official

Where Is Grant Shapps From?

Croxley Green, United Kingdom.