TORY chairman Grant Shapps was ambushed yesterday by the constituent he threatened to sue over claims he had a second job.

Former Labour councillor Dean Archer cornered Mr Shapps as he arrived at the BBC’s Millbank TV studios to demand an apology and hand him a letter for his lawyer.

The confrontation came after the Tory last week admitted that he continued working after becoming an MP in 2005.
He was forced into the U-turn after a recording was found of him selling his book Stinking Rich 3, which he penned under the pseudonym Stephen Green, in 2006.

Mr Archer described the Tory chairman as “vindictive, dishonest, and a liar” following the stunt.

“I exposed Shapps’s lies and I need an apology now, but he didn’t look at me, he didn’t say anything, he didn’t apologise,” he told Buzzfeed.

Mr Shapps also struggled to answer questions about his second identity when he got inside the studio.

Labour shadow minister Mary Creagh, who was also appearing on the World At One show, asked if he was going to apologise to the constituent.

But the Tory claimed Labour set up the meeting with Mr Archer and insisted he threatened to sue him because “what he wrote was in fact wrong and defamatory.”

Labour shadow Cabinet Office minister John Ashworth said: “After his car-crash interview, the unanswered questions for Grant Shapps are growing.

“David Cameron has so far looked the other way at serious allegations against Grant Shapps, but this taints the whole Tory Party, who always stand up for the wrong people.”