Senior Tory Grant Shapps received payoff during bullying scandal. For what?
![Grant Shapps resigned, maintaining his innocence in the affair, saying ‘responsibility should rest somewhere’ [Image: Carl Court/Getty Images].](https://voxpoliticalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160818-Shapps.png)
Grant Shapps resigned, maintaining his innocence in the affair, saying ‘responsibility should rest somewhere’ [Image: Carl Court/Getty Images].
Apparently a lump sum equivalent to three months’ salary is payable when a minister leaves office. For a backbencher this would be around £17,750, so a minister would receive much more.
Shapps was Tory Chairman, which I’m not sure counts as a ministerial appointment.
So it seems the £8,000 was for something else.
Doesn’t it?
Grant Shapps received a pay off after standing down as a minister at the height of the Conservative bullying scandal, it emerged on Thursday.
The former Conservative co-chairman was given £8,000 despite accepting responsibility amid claims he had failed to act on allegations of bullying following the death of party activist Elliott Johnson.
Shapps maintained his innocence in the affair but tendered his resignation on the grounds that “responsibility should rest somewhere”.
Source: Senior Tory Grant Shapps received payoff during bullying scandal | Politics | The Guardian
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One wonders whether Michael Green and Sebastian Fox also received a “corrupt” payoff.
Two words Mike….Hush money!
For someone of his wealth £8,000 is peanuts but it is more than 7 million in this country have to live on for a year if they are getting some kind of unemployment/disability allowance and some lower paid or self employed people and it is £8,000 more than the 1 million + homeless receive. He’s probably going to tell us, if he even bothers to, that it ‘s a “much ado about nothing”.