Grant Shapps privately believed his key role in Road Trip 2015 – the campaigning operation aimed at winning votes in marginal seats – would catapult him to party leader. Astonishingly Shapps, who resigned from the Government on Saturday, thought the success of Road Trip 2015 would enable him to tilt at the leadership if David Cameron was forced to resign. ...read
ANDREW PIERCE: Bungler who thought he could be PM: Shapps thought his key role in Road Trip 2015 would catapult him to party leader
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