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.
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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.
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Grant Shapps Children: Who Are Grant Shapps Kids?
Shapps has three children with his wife Belinda.
As a result of his chemotherapy treatment, the youngsters were conceived by IVF. Grant’s sperm was frozen before treatment began.
Their children are a boy called Hadley and daughter and son twins Tabytha and Noa. Eldest son Hadley was born in 2001 and the twins followed in 2004.
He was able to have children despite fears he’d be unable to when he was diagnosed with cancer. Mr Shapps told the Express in 2014: “I was told I had cancer and would never have children.”


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