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Grant Shapps

1968 - Today

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Sir Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from August 2023 to July 2024. Shapps previously served in various cabinet posts, including Conservative Party Co-Chairman, Transport Secretary, Home Secretary, Business Secretary, and Energy Secretary under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield from 2005 to 2024. He was defeated and lost his seat in the 2024 general election. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grant Shapps is the 18,586th most popular politician (down from 18,023rd in 2019), the 6,810th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,275th in 2019) and the 709th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Grant Shapps ranks 18,586 out of 19,576Before him are Loek van Wely, Claire McCaskill, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Tammy Baldwin, Feleknas Uca, and Maria Cantwell. After him are Anneli Ott, Anders Samuelsen, Elena Kountoura, Pia Olsen Dyhr, Luigi de Magistris, and Anna Gomis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Grant Shapps ranks 704Before him are Josef Polig, Samantha Ferris, Alex James, Radka Denemarková, Deon Hemmings, and Dave Abbruzzese. After him are Charlotte Coleman, Irshad Manji, Camelia Macoviciuc-Mihalcea, Lisa Loeb, Patrick Sylvestre, and Attila Repka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Grant Shapps ranks 6,812 out of 8,785Before him are John Mortimer (1923), KT Tunstall (1975), Jeff Astle (1942), Emma Rigby (1989), Billy Gilmour (2001), and Maurice Setters (1936). After him are Ritchie Coster (1967), Adam Carroll (1982), Charlotte Coleman (1968), Max Brown (1981), Gemma Whelan (1981), and Ken MacLeod (1954).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Grant Shapps ranks 709Before him are Don McKinnon (1939), Hilary Benn (1953), Priti Patel (1972), Amber Rudd (1963), Charles Kennedy (1959), and George Osborne (1971). After him are Jo Cox (1974), Ben Wallace (1970), Michael Gove (1967), Penny Mordaunt (1973), Liam Fox (1961), and Mark Drakeford (1954).