All news on the topic: Grant Shapps

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Rishi Sunak risks losing his seat as Tories reduced to 98 constituencies in general election mega poll
The Best For Britain MRP indicates 14 current ministers and secretaries of state will lose their seats in an unprecedented wave of Portillo moments
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'The Queen's been dead only 18 months, and the country's gone to the dogs'
When Queen Elizabeth II breathed her last, the Royals and the country imploded, says Fleet Street Fox. She must be doing 75 rpm by now
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Russian hackers 'jam signal' on RAF plane with Grant Shapps on board
Vladimir Putin's forces have been branded "wildly irresponsible" after the GPS signal and internet signal were blocked as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps flew back from Poland
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Tories at war as ex-defence minister says Jeremy Hunt should be ashamed by cuts
Ex-Tory Armed Forces minister Mark Francois savaged the Government after Jeremy Hunt failed to commit more funds to defence in the Budget despite the growing threat of war
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Fury at £27k bill for MoD office revamp while troops live in squalor
The Government department splurged on new wallpaper and carpets when Ben Wallace MP held the post in 2022 before being replaced by Grant Shapps in August last year
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Inside the Tory Winter Ball where rich donors paid £25k to dine with Jeremy Hunt
A Japanese meal with the Chancellor was auctioned off at the Tory Winter Party at Westminster's swanky Old War Office hotel, as Rishi Sunak rattled his donation tin
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Grant Shapps 'using RAF choppers like an Uber' after being picked up 3 times
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was picked up three times from a field near his home amid accusations of using RAF helicopters as "Britain's most expensive Uber"
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Grant Shapps got RAF helicopter to pick him up for meeting on public transport
An RAF helicopter flew from London to a field in Defence Secretary Grant Shapps' Welwyn Hatfield constituency, where it picked him up to take him to Yorkshire for Cabinet
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Plymouth bomb relief as thousands return home after WW2 device detonated
The World War 2 bomb discovered in the garden of a Plymouth property has been successfully detonated after over 10,000 residents were told to evacuate as the bomb was carried through the streets
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MoD confirms exact nature of 500kg Nazi bomb that sparked Plymouth evacuation
The Ministry of Defence said the 500kg SC-500 WW2 bomb that was found in a back garden in Keyham, Plymouth, earlier this week has been successfully detonated at sea
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Boris Johnson praises Ukraine's 'indomitable courage' on surprise visit to Kyiv
Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson has visited Kyiv as the UK government announced a £250million bid to replenish war-battered Ukraine's reserves as it continues to take on Vladimir Putin's forces
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Putin 'laughing at us' after test flop as 'UK put all nuke eggs in one basket'
Russian President Vladimir Putin is 'laughing' at the UK after our nuclear deterrent Trident flopped in its latest test, according to Prof Anthony Glees, security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham
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Meet Labour's newest MPs as double by-election victory spells misery for Tories
Gen Kitchen and Damian Egan are celebrating their double victory over the Tories in the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections - here's how they won, and what they want to do
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Tories eye May election to 'stop the bleeding' and head off Sunak mutiny
Senior Tory source says May election might be necessary after Labour battering in by-elections and polls suggesting the party will be 'obliterated' with announcement potentially soon
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Bombshell mega-poll predicts Tories will lose three-quarters of seats in wipeout
The MRP poll that surveyed 18,000 people projects Rishi Sunak will be left with just 80 MPs, which would be the party’s worst result in history and see 18 Cabinet ministers ousted
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What WW3 could look like in modern Britain - 'rations, curfews and forced camps'
As Vladimir Putin discusses the deciding factor in Russia invading more of Europe, the Mirror spoke to a world affairs expert about what modern-day war could look like in Britain
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David Cameron issues warning to Iran as Houthi Red Sea crisis deepens
The UK and the US struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen overnight in the third wave of airstrikes this month as David Cameron issued a warning to Iran
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'It's a travesty our soldiers can't afford to go home to see their families'
"There is only one rail line from Manchester to London and one train company runs that line, so can they charge whatever they like? And don’t get me started on how much money the HS2 debacle has cost"
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Should women be conscripted in the event of a world war? Take our poll
A national poll has found that a huge majority of the public are in favour of women being conscripted should a world war break out. So we thought we'd ask Mirror readers what they think
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Whole of UK 'must prepare for conscription within 6 years', claims prof
Prof Anthony Glees, security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, told the Mirror General Sir Patrick Sanders is 'absolutely right' in his warning about conscription
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Rishi Sunak's dangerous war talk bluster could spark off genuine conflict
A top NATO commander says the UK's alliance with Ukraine - after Sunak increased military aid to £2.5billion a year - is preparing for a conflict with Russia “in the next 20 years”
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UK 'woefully underprepared' for conflict if steel blast furnaces are closed
The GMB has written to the Defence Secretary saying that losing the ability to make steel from scratch will 'significantly impact' the security of the country's essential defence supply chains
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No10 steps in after Army warns ordinary Brits may be called up to fight
Rishi Sunak ruled out conscription and insisted military service will remain voluntary after the head of the Army warned the armed forces will not be big enough if there is a war
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Army chief warns ordinary Brits will be called up to fight if UK goes to war
General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the British Army, is expected to warn there aren't enough troops in a major speech today - and the public will need to 'shift' mindset
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Chilling war mistakes warning as Grant Shapps squirms over Kuenssberg question
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg confronted Defence Secretary Grant Shapps over below-target army spending after he he set out the risks of an increasingly dangerous world