David Cameron has ‘full confidence’ in Grant Shapps

‘David Cameron has expressed his “full confidence” in Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party Chairman, after it emerged he continued to pursue business interests under a pseudonym for more than a year after becoming an MP.

Mr Shapps had repeatedly said that he stopped doing business under the name Michael Green after entering Parliament in 2005.

However the Guardian has uncovered a recording reportedly from the summer of 2006 in which the Tory MP explains how listeners can make a “ton of cash by Christmas”.’

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