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'Grant Shapps' (born September 14, 1968, Hertfordshire) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in the United Kingdom, winning the seat in the 2005 election on 5 May 2005.
Shapps was born in Watford in Hertfordshire and educated at Watford Boys' Grammar, and Manchester Polytechnic where he received a HND. In 1990 he founded his own printing company PrintHouse Corporation which has grown into a successful commercial design, print & web development company. He remains its Chairman. He married Belinda in 1997 and they have three children.
Shapps was elected as the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield at the 2005 election defeating the Labour MP and then Minister for Public Health, Melanie Johnson. He received 22,172 votes (49.6%) on a 9.2% swing from Labour to Conservative, a majority of 5,946 (13.3%).
According to Simon Hoggart writing in The Guardian, Shapps had 22 pictures of himself in his election address. However a later Hoggart article conceded that those who pitched "person" over "party" did receive better results.
Shapps was a member of the Public Administration Select Committee between May 2005 and Feb 2007, when he stood down in order to concentrate on his Conservative Front Bench Campaigning role.
He publicly supported David Cameron's leadership bid, and signed Cameron's nomination papers. Upon Cameron's election as Party Leader he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for Campaigning.
Shapps remains a prominent campaigner in his Welwyn Hatfield constituency, but has also developed a reputation for energetically investigating national issues, often in the fields of Health and Home Affairs. He regularly publishes reports on his website which are often very widely covered by the national press.
He has since held the following political appointments:
★ July 2005 member of the Public Administration Committee
★ December 2005 - Vice Chairman: Campaigning
★ June 2007 - Shadow Housing Minister (attending cabinet)
At a time when Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made Housing a top three priority, Shapps is responsible for developing Conservative Housing Policy. He argues in favour of a community-lead approach to solving the Housing crisis and warns against the Government's strategy of top-down, Whitehall driven Housing targets which have failed in the past. His Housing portfolio is widely considered to be one of the principle battlegrounds for the next British General Election.
In 1990 aged 21 Grant Shapps founded PrintHouse Corporation, a design, print, website creation and marketing business sited in London and now with a national and international blue chip client base. He remains as an arms length Chairman.
In 2002 Grant Shapps separated the internet marketing function from PrintHouse creating HowToCorp. Initially writing under the pen name Michael Green, nowadays the company uses Michael Green as a publishing name, with the products primarily commercially written by third-parties and marketed by HowToCorp Ltd.
★ Grant Shapps MP official site
Shapps was born in Watford in Hertfordshire and educated at Watford Boys' Grammar, and Manchester Polytechnic where he received a HND. In 1990 he founded his own printing company PrintHouse Corporation which has grown into a successful commercial design, print & web development company. He remains its Chairman. He married Belinda in 1997 and they have three children.
Shapps was elected as the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield at the 2005 election defeating the Labour MP and then Minister for Public Health, Melanie Johnson. He received 22,172 votes (49.6%) on a 9.2% swing from Labour to Conservative, a majority of 5,946 (13.3%).
According to Simon Hoggart writing in The Guardian, Shapps had 22 pictures of himself in his election address. However a later Hoggart article conceded that those who pitched "person" over "party" did receive better results.
Shapps was a member of the Public Administration Select Committee between May 2005 and Feb 2007, when he stood down in order to concentrate on his Conservative Front Bench Campaigning role.
He publicly supported David Cameron's leadership bid, and signed Cameron's nomination papers. Upon Cameron's election as Party Leader he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for Campaigning.
Shapps remains a prominent campaigner in his Welwyn Hatfield constituency, but has also developed a reputation for energetically investigating national issues, often in the fields of Health and Home Affairs. He regularly publishes reports on his website which are often very widely covered by the national press.
He has since held the following political appointments:
★ July 2005 member of the Public Administration Committee
★ December 2005 - Vice Chairman: Campaigning
★ June 2007 - Shadow Housing Minister (attending cabinet)
At a time when Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made Housing a top three priority, Shapps is responsible for developing Conservative Housing Policy. He argues in favour of a community-lead approach to solving the Housing crisis and warns against the Government's strategy of top-down, Whitehall driven Housing targets which have failed in the past. His Housing portfolio is widely considered to be one of the principle battlegrounds for the next British General Election.
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Business Interests
In 1990 aged 21 Grant Shapps founded PrintHouse Corporation, a design, print, website creation and marketing business sited in London and now with a national and international blue chip client base. He remains as an arms length Chairman.
In 2002 Grant Shapps separated the internet marketing function from PrintHouse creating HowToCorp. Initially writing under the pen name Michael Green, nowadays the company uses Michael Green as a publishing name, with the products primarily commercially written by third-parties and marketed by HowToCorp Ltd.
External Link
★ Grant Shapps MP official site
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