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By Dave Burke Top Tory Grant Shapps had an RAF helicopter pick him up from near his home three times in six weeks, The Mirror can reveal. The Defence Secretary, who was in charge of the nation’s transport for three years when Boris Johnson was PM, is accused of turning the VIP chopper into “Britain’s most expensive Uber”. Flight records show three occasions in January and February when he was collected from a field near his house. Mr Shapps has been criticised for getting RAF pilots to whisk him to engagements in Yorkshire, Manchester and Plymouth, and faces questions over whether he broke min…

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