Watch: Grant Shapps left squirming as he tries to defend PM
“It’s the first time that a British prime minister has broken the law in the history of the office - more than 300 years since Robert Walpole took office."
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Cabinet ministers write strongly worded letter to P&O chairman – who retired last year
"There is literally nothing these people can’t balls up. Nothing."
Shapps says the UK’s management of refugee crisis is down to Ukraine’s wishes
Last week, deputy prime minister Dominic Raab also blamed the difficulty Ukrainian refugees are having coming to the UK on... Ukrainian wishes.
Watch: Shapps’ rail announcement announcement is literally the Thick of It – bemused reactions
"Thank you so much. This really improves railway services in the Liverpool city region. Starting to feel fully levelled up now," one person said.
Grant Shapps’ staff held ANOTHER boozy lockdown party last Christmas
Department for Transport staff drunk and danced the night away last December, the day London entered Tier 3 restrictions.
Watch: MP refuses to withdraw word ‘dodgy’ when describing Shapps & Rees-Mogg
"I don't have any other way of putting it."
‘Betrayal’: Govt slammed over revised rail plan leaving Northern powerhouse in tatters
Alastair Campbell tweeted: "Posh, rich, privately educated Southerners conning and now screwing the North."
Government hits back at reports Shapps using public money to block building on airfields
The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.
WATCH: Grant Shapps answers why EU butchers need English skills
The transport secretary also argued “cheaper labour” stops companies from automating British jobs, whilst insisting the government wants “people domestically” to do those jobs.