Tea and drinks parties dubbed 'Schnapps with Shapps' are stoking the Westminster rumour mill
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps in February. He has previously held the posts of secretary of state for business, and transport, as well as a six-day stint as home secretary , the Defence Secretary has been working on wooing MPs and boosting his personal profile in anticipation of a future contest,“The one who’s making the most manoeuvres is Grant Shapps,” one backbench MP said. “Everyone else is at least doing it relatively subtly. Grant isn’t being subtle at all.
, Shapps pitched himself as “a problem solver with a proven record of delivery” and a “details man”, which echoes how some Tory MPs describe him. As part of Shapps’s efforts to woo MPs, WhatsApp groups used for the Defence Secretary’s short-lived 2022 leadership have reportedly been revived for Shapps to hold discussions with some of his supporters.
They said that he is now using his knack for spreadsheets to track various colleague’s opinions of him, as well as their individual areas of interest and prospects at A source close to Shapps said that the Defence Secretary remains “fully supportive of the Prime Minister and is concentrating on helping the Conservatives win the next election”.
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