On Thursday, BuzzFeed News reported that Wallis’s companies, which offered various online services, received hundreds of trading standards complaints before he became an MP, and that one of his companies was prevented from representing customers at employment tribunals following a Ministry of Justice investigation. Wallis said the figures were “nonsense” and that his former business was threatening legal action against his own local council.



Wallis resigned as a director of Quickie Divorce Limited on Dec. 20, seven days after he became the first Conservative MP for Bridgend since 1983. He is still listed by Companies House as the person with significant control of the business.

Clean-Break.co.uk’s recommendation of the "sugar daddy" service — which was live on its website while Wallis was a director and remains on the site today — says: “The service is not illegal or secret, it just maintains a low profile and respect people's wish for privacy.”