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[edit] Vice Chairman

In December 2005, [David Cameron] appointed Grant Shapps Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, with responsibility for campaigning^[1]. Shapps tried to bring in new methods of campaigning, including the use of "Push Politics", campaigning on local matters by sending e-mails to members of the electorate^[2] He also ran the Ealing Southall by-election, where the Conservative Party were listed as "David Cameron's Conservatives" on the ballot paper^[3]

Shapps was closely involved in running the controversial Ealing Southall by-election in which Conservative Candidate Tony Lit was revealed as having been photographed four weeks before being selected with former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair^[4], During a bitterly fought by-election Shapps was targeted by hackers who broke into his YouTube account to post a message under his name saying the party could not win the by-election ^[5]. Labour held the seat with the LibDems coming second and Conservative in third place though with a small increase in vote share^[6].

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