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0052 – Key note speaker, The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2023
Grant Shapps ‘plotting route back to parliament as an MP’
By Lee Harpin
Former minster was one of several Jewish MPs to lose their seat at the last election
0052 – Key note speaker, The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2023
September 30, 2024, 2:38 pm
Grant Shapps ‘plotting route back to parliament as an MP’
Former minster was one of several Jewish MPs to lose their seat at the last election
By Lee Harpin
Grant Shapps arrives for a Cabinet meeting
July 5, 2024, 1:39 pm
Ex-defence secretary with rock star relative loses seat
Former national president of the Jewish youth organisation BBYO Grant Shapps has lost his Welwyn Hatfield seat to Labour
By Jewish News Reporter
A Shadow R1 surveillance plane, pictured in 2011 at RAF Waddington
December 4, 2023, 10:48 am
Britain’s Royal Air Force to fly spy planes over Gaza looking for hostages
Surveillance flights will feed relevant information to Israel in the hunt for the last 137 people being held in the Gaza Strip
By Jewish News Reporter
Youth Aliyah Child Rescue Life President, Ella Latchman, receiving an award from Harvey Soning and Lorraine Robinson for her dedication and over 50 years service to Youth Aliyah Child Rescue (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2023
November 27, 2023, 1:24 pm
Youth Aliyah Child Rescue 90th anniversary dinner raises £500k+
Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP and Chief Rabbi amongst 270 guests supporting charity for Israel’s most vulnerable children
By Michelle Rosenberg
Media gather outside the BBC headquarters
October 11, 2023, 11:56 am
BBC defends referring to Hamas savages as ‘militants’ after attacks by senior MPs
Defence secretary Grant Shapps says BBC needs to "fix its moral compass" whilst Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer joins calls for broadcaster to explain its refusal to call Hamas 'terrorists'
By JN Reporter
Grant Shapps gives speech in Manchester
October 1, 2023, 4:37 pm
Grant Shapps tells Tory Party conference of ‘ancestors’ escape from pogroms
In his first major speech as defence secretary Shapps, who is Jewish, said decision he made with wife to bring Ukrainian family into their home was 'partly' due to the pogroms
By Lee Harpin
Sargent, John Singer; Sir Philip Sassoon; Wikipedia
September 12, 2023, 10:41 am
OPINION: The minyan of Jews involved in the British War Office since 1924
Historian Derek Taylor on 100 years of Jewish politicians working in key governmental defence roles, from Sir Phillip Sassoon to Grant Shapps.
By Derek Taylor
Grant Shapps the Business Secretary arrives for a Cabinet meeting, the first held by the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in London, Oct. 26, 2022.
September 11, 2023, 3:00 pm
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirms the death of his father, aged 91
The cabinet minister, who is Jewish, writes on social media of 'tough few days saying goodbye to my dad'
By Lee Harpin
Grant Shapps the Business Secretary arrives for a Cabinet meeting, the first held by the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in London, Oct. 26, 2022.
April 13, 2023, 7:44 pm
Grant Shapps: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a Brit whose religion is Jewish’
The Conservative minister tells Jewish News he and his wife's decision to take a Ukrainian family escaping Putin's war into their UK home was 'inspired' by the fact their own families were once 'chased out' by pogroms in Eastern Europe
By Lee Harpin
(from left, seated at table) International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid, Works and Pensions Secretary and Minister for Women Amber Rudd, Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, Culture Scretary Nicky Morgan, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak, and Chief Whip Mark Spencer, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds his first Cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London. (Photo credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire)
October 25, 2022, 5:25 pm
Shapps handed business role by Sunak
Having served as home secretary for less than one week under former PM Liz Truss, Jewish MP Grant Shapps is made business secretary under Rishi Sunak
By Lee Harpin
Grant Shapps arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street.
October 19, 2022, 4:53 pm
From BBYO to the Home Office. Grant Shapps is new home secretary
Former BBYO president replaces Suella Braverman as Truss battles to cling onto power.
By Jewish News Reporter
Grant Shapps, in his former role as transport minister, signs partnership with his then Israeli counterpart Merav Michaeli as Israel builds their £33bn Tel Aviv metro
August 24, 2022, 9:18 am
Crossrail experts to advise Israel on new Tel Aviv underground
Grant Shapps flew to Israel to confirm the project in which Crossrail International will provide consulting services for a new three-line underground with 109 stations
By Lee Harpin
Grant Shapps arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street.
July 12, 2022, 12:05 pm
Former BBYO president Grant Shapps pulls out of Tory leadership contest
Shapps - national president of the Jewish youth group in the 1980s - confirms he will how be supporting Rishi Sunak's bid to become prime minister and party leader
By Lee Harpin
Left: Dov and Lily with some of the 2,500 cards. Right: Lily with her birthday cake celebrating 98!
December 29, 2021, 2:36 pm
Piers Morgan, Rachel Riley and TikTok among 2,500 to wish survivor Lily Ebert a happy 98th!
Thousands send cards to celebrate Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert's birthday following appeal on social media by her 18-year-old great-grandson
Grant Shapps arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street.
July 30, 2021, 11:01 am
Transport Department backtracks after saying UK ‘recognises state of Palestine’
Government says information in a letter to Jewish News reader was 'not correct' as investigation launched
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