Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps

Former: United Kingdom Defence Secretary | Energy and Net Zero Secretary | Business Secretary | Home Secretary | Transport Secretary

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Great to be at Bushey Conservative Club this week.

Good beer, better company, and a clear message from Hertfordshire: the renewal is working and the comeback is happening.

Now on to the by-elections in Hemel and Hertsmere. Two chances to take seats from the Lib Dems.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Terrible news from Devon. My heart goes out to the families of the three Royal Navy personnel who lost their lives today - a devastating loss for the naval and wider armed forces community.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Russia says its “strike objectives” were achieved.

In Kyiv and Dnipro, at least 13 people are dead. Apartment blocks torn open, children injured and families searching rubble.

That is Putin’s war: not conquest, not strategy, but the deliberate normalisation of terror.
https://t.co/jFDqtFThKs

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

The first civilians injured by Russian weapons on NATO soil in the alliance's 76-year history. If that threshold doesn't force real consequences for Moscow and a rethink of our entire posture toward this war - what will?

https://t.co/fjoSmRj6oz

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Over a million young people are now out of work, education or training, the highest in 12 years.

You cannot tax jobs into existence. Yet this government is piling costs onto employers, driving wealth creators abroad and making Britain less attractive to invest, hire and grow.

https://t.co/0PNFv30div

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

86 years ago Operation Dynamo was underway. 338,000 Allied soldiers pulled from the jaws of defeat at Dunkirk. Europe's freedom has never been free - it's been fought for, bled for, and defended.

As Russian drones rain down on Ukraine, some things don't change. Neither should our resolve.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Russia fired its Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Ukraine last night - the third time ever.

Each one costs an estimated $30–50 million. The stockpile: a few dozen at most.

Target? A market and an opera house in Kyiv.

Putin is spending irreplaceable, strategic weapons on civilian terror. That's the act of a man losing this war.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

The future of transport is British - and it's already here. Great to experience @Wayve_AI on the road. Autonomous vehicles aren't coming. They've arrived.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

First the Energy Secretary blocks North Sea investment. Now they're having a carve-out for Russian crude.

The UK needs its own energy, not excuses to allow Putin’s oil to flow.

More in The @Independent today: https://t.co/pWNhEpKXUt

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Over 100 Fellows and counting. I'm delighted to welcome the Pitt cohort to the @ConsrvTogethr Fellowship after their initial training day on Saturday. Exciting times ahead for this group.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Putin said the war was nearly over.

Since then: 1,500 drones. 12 dead. Dozens wounded. The LARGEST attack of the entire war.

This is what Putin's 'peace' looks like. Don't listen to what he says. Watch what he does.

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

While Trump and Xi meet, Russia is launching 670+ drones and missiles at Ukrainian civilians. This summit should be used to tell Putin: enough is enough!

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

35,000 Russian casualties a month - exceeding their own recruitment rate.

No wonder Putin's suddenly keen on peace.

But it ends on Ukraine's terms. Not his.

https://t.co/I80RmVDYvK

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

The forgotten victims of Russia's war: 20,000+ Ukrainian children stolen from their parents. Identities erased. Some forced into its own army.

These aren't statistics. They are somebody's son. Somebody's daughter.

Any peace that ignores them is no peace.

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CTog Co-Founder Sir @GrantShapps, Fellowship Coordinator @AlexClarkson4MP and Hertfordshire Chairman Emil Sohrab on the ground in Northaw today - joined by Sir @OliverDowden MP as the team makes its final push on election day.

#CTog #PoweringTheParty

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Polling day. The groundwork's done - now it counts. Best of luck to all our candidates.

#CTog #PoweringTheParty

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

20+ civilians killed across Ukraine – then Vladimir Putin announces a “ceasefire” for his parade.

This isn’t peace. It’s propaganda.

https://t.co/b3vZZzaby7

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

The monthly small boat crossing rate has doubled. Solutions:

Implement Rwanda scheme

Leave ECHR

Scrap increased welfare like two child benefit, since it increases attractiveness of turning up on UK shores.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

We won’t be shouted down for standing up for Britain’s Jewish community, who are under siege.

Unless we stand up for the truth, what happened in the 1930s will happen again.

Watch @KemiBadenoch take down a leftist heckler on the campaign trail ⬇️

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Zack Polanski’s intervention is not just misguided – it is frankly disgraceful. Police officers were dealing with a violent attacker armed with a knife, who had just stabbed two people in the street, and was refusing to surrender his weapon.

In those moments, their job is to stop the threat and protect the public, and by all accounts that is exactly what they did.

For a national political leader to second-guess those officers, amplify unverified claims, and undermine confidence in policing in the immediate aftermath is deeply irresponsible. It sends entirely the wrong signal at a time when the Jewish community, targeted here and in the past few weeks – are looking to the police for protection and reassurance.

Polanski should withdraw those comments and apologise. Criticising officers who have just put themselves in harm’s way to stop further bloodshed is not principled politics – it is reckless, and he ought to be ashamed of himself.