The murky story of Mark Clarke, Elliott Johnson and allegations of bullying in the ranks of Conservative Future is pointing towards another scalp: Lord Feldman. Following the resignation of Grant Shapps this weekend, MPs are now calling for the Conservative party’s current chairman to resign — given that he was at the top of Conservative HQ when Clarke was kicked off the candidates list and later brought back in. He was also chairman when Johnson died too.
Shapps has been described as the ‘fall guy’ for this situation — he had already left CCHQ after May’s general election and has been serving as the international development minister. But he tweeted last night that it was his own decision and he should have possibly quit sooner:
Decision to resign 100% my own. I carefully considered it for several days. I felt Johnson family deserved it & if anything I was too slow.
— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) November
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