Grant Shapps

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Grant Shapps is a British Conservative politician who has held multiple senior UK government cabinet roles, including in transport, defence, and energy.

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Grant Shapps canonical 5
Grant Venter Shapps 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Conservative Party politician
human
appointedBy Boris Johnson
David Cameron
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
birthDate 1968-09-14
birthName Grant Shapps self-linksurface differs
surface form: Grant Venter Shapps
birthPlace Croydon
surface form: Croydon, London, England
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
educatedAt Manchester Metropolitan University
surface form: Manchester Polytechnic

Watford Grammar School for Boys
hasAlias Corinne Stockheath
Michael Green
Sebastian Fox
hasParliamentBiography https://members.parliament.uk/member/1584/contact
hasWebsite https://www.shapps.com/
ideology conservatism
memberOfPoliticalParty Conservative Party (UK)
name Grant Shapps self-link
notableFor serving in multiple senior UK cabinet roles
numberOfChildren 3
occupation businessperson
politician
parliamentaryGroup Conservative Party (UK)
positionHeld Chairman of the Conservative Party
Home Secretary
Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield
Minister of State for Housing and Local Government
Minister without Portfolio
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Secretary of State for Defence
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Secretary of State for International Development
Secretary of State for Transport
precededInPosition Secretary of State for Defence
surface form: Ben Wallace as Secretary of State for Defence

Chris Grayling as Secretary of State for Transport
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
surface form: Claire Coutinho as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

Priti Patel as Home Secretary
religion Judaism
represents Welwyn Hatfield
residence Welwyn Hatfield
surface form: Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
spouse Belinda Shapps
startTime 2005-05-05
succeededInPosition James Cleverly as Home Secretary
Secretary of State for Transport
surface form: Mark Harper as Secretary of State for Transport
twitterUsername grantshapps
votedFor Leave in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

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