Once reputed to be worth £100m, the ‘Tory Obama’ is facing bankruptcy proceedings over unpaid taxes
When Adam Afriyie sold his political data business, DeHavilland, for £18m, only months after his 2005 election to the House of Commons, it looked as if the fledgling MP had secured a strong financial platform to support his vaulting political ambition.
His 72% stake in the company netted him £13m and one of the Conservative party’s first black MPs – sometimes dubbed the “Tory Barack Obama” – was at one stage reputed to be worth £100m.
