Grant Shapps Articles

Are we being bold? Are we? I’ve recounted my hatred of boldness as a political value in this column, but I fear I am fighting a losing battle. Labour commentators turned the boldness up to 11 this week, when Ed Miliband proposed extending new rental contracts to three...

I began Business of the House Questions this week by raising the dramatic events in Ukraine that continue to unfold. As a new cabinet is installed in Kiev ahead of May’s presidential elections there are worrying reports of Russian troop movements on the border amid...

For the growing number of tenants in the private rental sector, it is not difficult to believe that they are the lowest of the low. You can’t buy a home of your own because property is simply too expensive, and your rent makes it impossible to save. Landlords have the...

The Tories’ ‘40:40’ strategy indicates a Conservative majority in 2015 is difficult but possible, writes Hopi Sen DURING Conservative party conference last year, the prime minister’s political secretary, Stephen Gilbert, took the unusual step of privately briefing...