Graham Mills is on a mission. Spurred on by the bitter experience of his own divorce battle, the 50 year-old surveyor has become a one-man army - determined to go all the way to the Supreme Court to change Britain’s divorce laws.

With an unflinching honesty that has garnered him thousands of supporters, Mills says that our courts are “outmoded and dangerous” - turning men into “cash machines for life” and setting feminism back 20 years by making women “dependent on men”.

Mills was thrust into the public eye in February this year, when his acrimonious split took the term “messy divorce” to a new high – or low, depending on your perspective.

In 2002, he had agreed to give his former wife, Maria, now 51, a £230,000 lump sum to purchase a house for her and their young son, as well as £1,100 a month in personal maintenance.

In 2014, Mills, who had since remarried and had another child, took Maria to court to have those payments stopped.