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NEW: Newly elected Conservative MP Jamie Wallis can be revealed as the man behind a network of controversial companies that his local council says have been subject to hundreds of Trading Standards complaints

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New Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis has resigned as a director of at least seven companies that run various online services since the election

He says Bridgend council records showing hundreds of Trading Standards complaints against the firms are "nonsense"

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In 2011, the Ministry of Justice blocked Wallis’ firm Action Direct, which represented people making claims at employment tribunals, from taking on new clients

One customer complained to the press about receiving a £400 bill despite no work being done

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Bridgend Council says Trading Standards received hundreds of complaints against Wallis' firms

— 137 complaints about Action Direct
— 166 about Fields Data Recovery
— 151 about Quickie Divorce Ltd
— 26 about Rapid Data Recovery
— 12 re Injunction Direct

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Wallis resigned as the director of many of these companies following his election win last month

He says the record of complaints held by Bridgend Council is "nonsense" and his former company is suing his own local council over the claims.......

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This is a cached version of Lush Dates — a now-deleted dating website that was run by new Tory MP Jamie Wallis

He says it was a white-label website that never accepted clients

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This is "Injunction Direct", another site run by Wallis

It promised “quick, simple and affordable injunctions"

There have been 12 Trading Standards complaints against it according to Bridgend Council

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Some more of Wallis' websites

— “visaaction.co.uk” offered visa services to people wishing to come to the UK for among other reasons, “marriage”
— plus... "quickie-divorce.com", which Bridgend council says had 151 Trading Standards complaints

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Wallis also owned "viral" "news" site Digzoo (tho he insists he had no editorial control)

“Cannibal Describes Eating Girlfriend's Brains to Police” and “Couple Raped Daughter for Years, Claimed the Children as Their Own, Then Said They Could Cure Cancer”

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The full (bonkers) story of the new Tory MP for Bridgend Jamie Wallis, who quit his businesses after the election while his family sue his own local council over their claims to have received 100s of Trading Standards complaints about his firms

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EXCLUSIVE: A website run by newly elected Conservative MP Jamie Wallis promoted a “sugar daddy” service offering students financial relationships with wealthy “sponsors”

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Sugar Daddy asked potential clients:

“Are you a student, a single parent or just short of money? 1000s of wealthy executives, international businessmen and diplomats are eager to sponsor you. Typical sponsorship can be £2,000 - £25,000 per year.”

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Sugar Daddy is listed as one of four “recommended resources” on Clean-Break.co.uk, a trading title for Jamie Wallis' company Quickie Divorce Limited

Wallis resigned from Quickie Divorce Limited when he became an MP last month

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EXCLUSIVE: A senior Boris Johnson aide has said the UK will forge a “special relationship” with Viktor Orban's govt in Hungary after Brexit

Video and quotes from Tim Montgomerie's incendiary speech at a right-wing think tank in Budapest last month here >

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Here is Johnson aide Tim Montgomerie last month on how he wants the PM to have a “special relationship” with Orban’s Hungary after the UK leaves the EU

These remarks were not signed off by the PM or No10

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💥People in government furious with Tim Montgomerie tonight

A source says he has not yet returned to No10 since the election and it is still to be decided whether he will continue in his job 💥

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NEW: More than a third of Conservative voters admit they have a negative view of Muslims, according to a new ICM poll that lays bare the scale of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in Britain

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ICM surveyed 2,011 voters about their views on Muslims and Jews in the UK last week

The poll compares the answers of people who said they voted Conservative and Labour at the 2017 election with the public as a whole

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62% of Tory voters said they agreed with the statement that Islam threatens the British way of life

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