Modern Maverick

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Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones has won fame as the Black Farmer, and now he has aspirations to reshape British politics. Laura Williams caught up with him at his new base in Chippenham.

I f ever there was a prime example of a self-made man, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones would be it. Sitting back in his elegant Chippenham flat, dressed in a pink shirt and satin ivory waistcoat, with a very English-sounding double-barreled name, Wilfred could be the classic Conservative.

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Modern Maverick

And as the prospective parliamentary Conservative Party candidate for the newly-created Chippenham ward, in some ways, he is.

"I'm a modern-type Conservative," he says. "Not an old-school Conservative MP."

Wind back half a century and Wilfred was growing up in poverty - a far cry from his current lifestyle.

Born in Jamaica in the 1950s, his family decided to move to ...

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