From Boris the Lion King to Theresa May's P45 - my malarial week at the Tory conference

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3. Ah, yes. Shapps.

That Tory bullying scandal and all the revolting revelations about the Tory battlebus tour have never been fully resolved, AFAIK, have they?

Grant Shapps resigns over bullying scandal: 'the buck should stop with me'

Grant Shapps, a former Tory chairman, has resigned from the government in disgrace in the wake of revelations that he had been warned about bullying in the party before the death of one of its young activists.

He was forced to quit as a minister for international development after the father of 21-year-old Elliott Johnson claimed his son would still be alive if Shapps and Andrew Feldman, the current Tory chair, had behaved responsibly when made aware of the behaviour of one its senior organisers.

The two men were co-chairs of the Conservative party at the time that the young Tory activist was allegedly being targeted by Mark Clarke, who ran the party’s RoadTrip initiative, responsible for ferrying activists around the country during the general election campaign.

In an exchange of letters with the prime minister, Shapps continued to maintain his innocence in the affair but tendered his resignation on the grounds that “responsibility should rest somewhere”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/28/grant-shapps-resigns-over-bullying-scandal

With the spotlight on him again, Sky News felt driven to describe is career as "chequered":

http://news.sky.com/story/grant-shapps-who-is-tory-mp-leading-plot-against-theresa-may-11069236

Shocking.