Grant Shapps profile: from farce to tragedy

How a man once tipped as prime ministerial material became a laughing stock, and then a liabilityFew Tory MPs have risen so quickly in recent years only to fall into obscurity – and now ignominy – as Grant Shapps.The youthful-looking 47-year-old minister for international development has bucketloads of chutzpah, but is viewed as something of a maverick by the more fusty elements of the Conservative party. Continue reading...