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Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968)〔 〕 is a British Conservative Party politician, former Minister of State at the Department for International Development. A former co-chairman of the Conservative Party, he is the member of parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in England. He first won the seat, as Grant V Shapps,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Offices – Parliamentary Election Results )〕 in the general election of 5 May 2005. Shapps was returned to parliament in the May 2010 election with a majority of 17,423, which fell to 12,153 in 2015.〔http://www.welhat.gov.uk/electionresults2015〕 On 9 June 2010, Shapps was appointed as a Privy Counsellor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Privy Council appointments, 9 June 2010 )〕 On 4 September 2012, he was appointed Conservative Party Co-Chairman, replacing Baroness Warsi; he was also appointed Minister without portfolio in the Cabinet Office. His salary was paid by the party. On 11 May 2015, Shapps lost his positions as Conservative party co-chairman and minister without portfolio at the Cabinet Office, and was instead appointed minister of state at the Department for International Development.〔 On 28 November 2015, he stood down from his ministerial appointment due to allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party. ==Family and early life== Shapps was born in Croxley Green, Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Jewish family.〔 He was educated at Yorke Mead Primary School, Watford Grammar School for Boys, and Cassio College.〔 He completed a business and finance course at Manchester Polytechnic, and received a Higher National Diploma. Shapps was also National President of the Jewish youth organisation BBYO. In 1989, according to Shapps, he was in a car crash in Kansas, United States, that left him in a coma for a week. He married Belinda Goldstone in 1997〔 and they have three children.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parliamentary Candidate for Welwyn Hatfield Shadow Housing Minister )〕 In 1999 Shapps was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy recovering from cancer by the following year.〔 As a result of the effects of chemotherapy, his children were conceived by IVF.〔 Shapps' brother, Andre Shapps, is a musician. Between 1994 and 1998, Andre Shapps was a member of Big Audio Dynamite (BAD), playing keyboards. The Shapps' cousin, Mick Jones, was a key figure in the British punk rock of the late 1970s and a founding member of both the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite.〔''Newsnight'', BBC2, 14 April 2010〕〔(Grant Shapps, Conservative, Welywn Hatfield ) Echo, May 2010〕〔(Simon Hattenstone, 2012, "The Saturday interview: Grant Shapps", ''The Guardian'' (28 April). ) (Access: 23 June 2015.) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grant Shapps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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