A Conservative MP has allegedly posed as another person to sell get-rich programs while an elected member of the UK parliament.

Grant Shapps, alias Michael Green, alias Sebastian Fox, is the Conservative Party chairman and MP for Welwyn Hatfield.

But as Michael Green he also ran a business aimed at advising those who want to get rich on how to do so in online marketing.

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Mr Shapps had maintained that he had abandoned the business before he was elected in 2005.

But in the summer of 2006 he spoke as Michael Green and told a podcast with host Peter Twist that he was making plans for the future of his business, The Guardian reported.

That statement jars with a more recent statement of his employment status.

On London talk radio station LBC Mr Shapps said he had never had another job.

“I don’t have a second job, and I have never had a second job whist being an MP,” Mr Shapps said.

In an interview between Michael Green and Peter Twist in 2006 Green as head of How To Corp spoke about “making a ton of cash by Christmas”.

He spoke about building new websites and “how to make that successful” and about putting out a web-product that manipulates Google Ad-Sense for businesses “and that’s coming out this summer”, The Guardian reported.

A photo of Shapps wearing a “Michael Green” nametag has emerged online.

A Conservative Party spokesman said “Like many authors and journalists, Grant wrote with a pen name. This was completely transparent: his full name and biographical details were permanently published on the company’s main website.”

“Given that this was a decade ago, and was mentioned during the cut and thrust of an interview, he referenced that his writing career had ended when he became an MP: in fact it ended shortly afterwards,” he said.