Jon Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, responding to the latest Guardian revelations regarding Grant Shapps, said:
“These letters clearly show the lengths Grant Shapps was prepared to go to in order to bully a constituent into saying that the Tory Party Chairman had stopped pretending to be called Michael Green after being elected as an MP - a claim we now know not to be true.
”“They also drive a coach and horses through Shapps's claim that his denial of having another job while an MP was made in the heat of the moment.
"Nothing could be further away from the heat of the moment than the sending of a threatening solicitors’ letter."