Grant Shapps: from rising Tory star to plotter against the PM

The backbencher revealed as leading a bid to oust Theresa May enjoyed a rapid ascent in the party but withdrew amid scandal Former Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps has been unmasked as the ringleader of a bid to oust Theresa May as prime minister, but he was once pegged as a serious contender for the top job himself.The rapid trajectory towards power enjoyed by Shapps in the first half of his political career has long since gone into reverse, however, and he resigned from his ministerial