article_snippet.sent: The Wikipedia official who accused Grant Shapps of doctoring Mr Shapps own online biography was exposed yesterday as a former Liberal Democrat member.
article_snippet.sent: The Tory party chairman had been accused this week of using an anonymous user ID to delete embarrassing facts about The Tory party chairman past and add unflattering details about The Tory party chairman political rivals.
article_snippet.sent: But yesterday it emerged that the senior Wikipedia administrator who investigated the allegations - following a tip-off from the left-wing Guardian - was a former Lib-Dem member.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds decided to block a user called 'Contribsx' on Tuesday after concluding the account was probably operated either by Mr Shapps or under He 'clear direction'.
article_snippet.sent: At first Mr Symonds claimed the Tory chairman ran the account either directly or indirectly, but later Mr Symonds changed this to suggest simply that the account was run by a user called 'Hackneymarsh' who was linked to Mr Shapps' office by The Guardian in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Symonds said: 'While a link has clearly been drawn between Hackneymarsh and Contribsx, it is impossible to know who was sitting behind the keyboard of Contribsx. '
article_snippet.sent: But given the nature of edits, I suspect that it was Mr Shapps or someone close to Mr Shapps.'
article_snippet.sent: The Liberal Democrats used the claims to poke fun at the Tory chairman when the story broke on Tuesday night, and senior figures in the party continued mocking the Tory chairman yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg said Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg believed the denials but then joked that the person behind the account could have been 'Michael Green', the pseudonym used by Mr Shapps to promote get-rich-quick schemes before Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg became an MP.
article_snippet.sent: It's absolutely nothing to do with Mr Shapps.
highlights_snippet.sent: Official who accused Mr Shapps of doctoring Mr Shapps profile a former Lib Dem .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: However, Mr Shapps once described Mr Shapps as a 'Liberal Democrat to the last'
  Mr Shapps decided to block a user called 'Contribsx' on Tuesday after concluding it was probably operated by Mr Shapps or under Mr Shapps 'clear direction' 