Tag: Adam Afriyie

Adam Afriyie

Tory MP for: Windsor (Berkshire, South East England)
First elected: 2005
2017 majority over Labour: 22,384 (41.5%)
Seat at-risk ranking: 294th (out of 317 Tory MPs)

Profile: Afriyie is the Conservative Party’s first mixed-race MP, although he said in an interview with the Evening Standard that he considers himself not as black but “post-racial”.

Reports of Afriye’s self-made wealth vary from £13m to £100m. The 47-year-old who grew up in social housing in Peckham now owns two large houses, one in Westminster and a former 17th-century monastery near Windsor. Afriyie is also chairman of Connect Support Services, an IT support company. He owned two-thirds of DeHavilland, a political and parliamentary monitoring and news service which was sold to Emap in 2005 for £18m.

[Wikipedia article on Adam Afriyie]  [Wikipedia article on Windsor constituency]

Millionaire Tory MP: It is “impossible” to raise family on £67,000 – why not give us £225,000?

From Political Scrapbook: Wannabe Tory leader Adam Afriyie has claimed it is “impossible” to raise a family on £67,000 — suggesting instead that MPs should not be given a salary and audited expenses but an “allowance” of up to £225,000 to spend however they want.

In an interview with Chat Politics, the Windsor MP — a multimillionaire through technology businesses — says: “It is almost impossible to operate on the salary that is given to MPs if you come from a middle income family.”

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Equal Pay: Seven male Tory MPs vote against bill to make big companies reveal gender pay gap

From the Independent: Seven male Tory MPs voted against a bill to make big companies reveal their gender pay gap, it has been revealed. They were Adam Afriyie (Windsor), Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase), Christopher Chope (Christchurch), Stewart Jackson (Peterborough), David Nuttall (Bury North), Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury), and John Whittingdale (Maldon).

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Adam Afriyie: Tory Party should apologise for same-sex marriage

From Pink News: Tory MP Adam Afriyie has called in an article for the party to reconnect with traditional Conservative voters who feel alienated by same-sex marriage.

Afriyie wrote: “Many of our core supporters feel alienated and disillusioned. The party establishment must reconnect with these supporters. And this will probably mean a swallowing of pride with a sincere apology for the way gay marriage was introduced.

“Then I’m hopeful we’ll stand a better chance of winning people’s trust, especially if we have some undeniably conservative policies in our manifesto.”

[Read full article on Pink News website…]