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 report concluded, however, that senior party figures were not aware of Clarke’s alleged bullying of youth activists between 1 January 2014 and 14 August 2015. Shapps was the Conservative co-chairman when Clarke was brought in to run the ‘Road Trip 2015’ campaign during the election. In terms of a duty of care, it appears that the Conservative Party failed to look after the interests of our son and others. In response to the report, the Conservative party said it would set up a hotline for complaints made by volunteers and overhaul its system for reporting complaints.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2016 19:52 UTC