Adam Mensah Osei Afriyie (born 4 August 1965)[1] is a British politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for Windsor from 2005 to 2024.
[2][3] Adam Afriyie was born on 4 August 1965 in Wimbledon, London, the son of a Ghanaian father and English mother.
[4] He was educated at Addey and Stanhope School in New Cross, before earning a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from Wye College in 1987.
She was my rock, the gel at the centre of my life, although her tumultuous relationships with different men made for a constant state of flux at the boundaries of our family.
[8] A member of the Conservative Party since 1990,[9] Afriyie in 1999 worked for Jeffrey Archer on his unsuccessful campaign to be the first directly elected mayor of London.
[18] He continued to advocate an early referendum after his rebel amendment was easily defeated in the House of Commons with just 6% of the vote, citing public support for such a move.
[25] At the snap 2017 general election, Afriyie was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 64.4% and a decreased majority of 22,384.
[32] In May 2022, the House of Commons standards body reprimanded Afriyie for failing to register his role as board chairman of Elite Growth, a cannabis distribution company.
Afriyie had tried to get the Commons registry staff to retrospectively alter the records to make it to appear as if he had registered his role at the firm.
Three years before, in 2019, the Commons standards commissioner reprimanded the MP for failing to declare income from letting his Windsor house through Airbnb for £2,000 a night.
[34] In May 2004, Adam and Romi Afriyie won a libel case against The Mail on Sunday over a published article, "What IDS's Mr Perfect didn't tell Tory bosses".