Why has a performance artist hijacked Grant Shapps MP’s abandoned identity?

Meet the man who has resurrected the Tory chairman's alter ego "Michael Green".

(Photo By "You never really know with Grant Shapps, do you?" Photo: Getty)

We’ve read a lot in recent weeks about Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps, and whether he gave up the alternative identity of HowToCorp business guru Michael Green before or after becoming an MP in 2005.

It might, then, come as a surprise to the idle internet surfer to chance across a Michael Green Twitter account, still tweeting away into the void about how to make millions from affiliate marketing.