Tories urged to take action against new MP Jamie Wallis over alleged links to ‘sugar daddy’ website offering to set cash-strapped young mums and students up with ‘wealthy executives and international businessmen’
- Jamie Wallis is reported to have been involved with www.sugar-daddy.net
- It offered to help students, single parents and those ‘just short of money’
- Said it could set them up with ‘wealthy executives’ willing to pay them thousands
- Wallis denies having a financial interest in company that owned and ran site
The Tories were facing calls to kick out one of their new MPs today after he was accused of co-owning a ‘sugar daddy’ website offering to set up ‘vulnerable’ people needing money with wealthy older benefactors.
Online entrepreneur Jamie Wallis, 36, who took the Bridgend seat off Labour in December, is reported to have been involved with the now defunct www.sugar-daddy.net.
It offered to put students, single parents and those ‘just short of money’ in contact with ‘1000s of wealthy executives, international businessmen and diplomats’ willing to pay them between £2,000 and £25,000 a year, according to Buzzfeed.
Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips started an online petition calling on Boris Johnson to Strip Mr Wallis of the whip, saying: ‘Let’s be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly: exploitation of women by powerful men.
‘The Tories should feel ashamed sitting alongside Jamie Wallis. The only way to show they don’t condone this kind of behaviour is to remove the whip.’
And Jon Trickett MP, Labour’s shadow Cabinet Office minister added: ‘This website and Jamie Wallis’s other businesses range from the unsavoury to the downright appalling, with exploitation at the heart of every one.
Online entrepreneur Jamie Wallis, 36, (left) who took the Bridgend seat off Labour in December, is reported to have been behind the now defunct www.sugar-daddy.net
Labour leadership candidate Jess Phillips started an online petition calling on Boris Johnson to Strip Mr Wallis of the whip, saying: ‘Let’s be clear: sugar daddy is a euphemism for something deeply ugly: exploitation of women by powerful men’
‘The people of Bridgend deserve better than a Tory MP who appears to have been preying on vulnerable students.
‘The Conservative party must take immediate action or accept that they have no ethical code left.’
According to Buzzfeed, in 2008 Mr Wallis was a shareholder and director in Fields Group Limited, the parent company of SD Billing Services, which owned Sugar-daddy.net, citing Companies House records.
The website was active from 2004 until it was taken offline in 2010.
But in a statement provided to Buzzfeed last week, Mr Wallis said: ‘The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited.
‘For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities.’
Mr Wallis and the Conservative Party have been approached for comment.