Grant Shepps

Grant Shapps – Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom and successor to Ben Wallace, a successful businessman, Conservative politician, and minister in several UK governments.

Grant Shapps has spent decades in big politics – first as a parliamentarian, and later in senior positions in Westminster. This is already the politician's fifth job in the British government in less than a year.

Shapps – a consistent supporter of Ukraine in the fight against Russia. In particular, he paid great attention to energy security and support for Kyiv. In April 2022, Shapps took in a family of Ukrainian refugees at his home in Hertfordshire, who lived there for more than 10 months.

Grant Shapps is married and has three children. He survived a serious diagnosis – Hodgkin lymphoma, but overcame the disease and returned to politics.

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