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The Independent reports:
A senior Conservative MP has apologised after revealing his involvement in a Westminster honeytrap sexting scandal, which targeted a minister and fellow MPs. William Wragg had leaked colleagues’ numbers to a man he had met on the gay app Grindr, after becoming scared over sending intimate pictures of himself to the user.
Speaking to The Times, he said he provided the contact details after he feared the man had “compromising things on me”. Colleagues, which include MPs, members of their staff, and a political journalist, were later sent unsolicited flirtatious texts from senders calling themselves “Charlie” or “Abi” in a suspected spear phishing attack.
Politico Europe reports:
British police have launched an investigation into the WhatsApp “honey trap” scandal engulfing Westminster after a formal complaint from a serving MP.
A police spokesperson told POLITICO their force was investigating a complaint of “malicious communications” sent to an unnamed MP after more than a dozen men working in and around the U.K. parliament were targeted with alluring personalized messages and — in several cases — naked photographs.
Some senior Tory MPs have speculated a hostile state power is behind the campaign, though experts suggested it may be more likely the work of a criminal gang seeking compromising material.
A British politician in the Conservative Party admitted to The Times of London that he’d been caught up in a so-called “honeytrap” on Grindr, handing the personal phone numbers of his colleagues over to a man he met on the app over fear of blackmail. https://t.co/EhZdgnHQiO
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 4, 2024
Tory MPs calling for William Wragg to resign over the honeytrap sexting scandal where he handed over MPs’ numbers to someone he met on Grindr.
Wragg is a hard Brexiteer, part of the “Common Sense Group” of Tories
& pushes a right wing agenda against the @NationalTrust https://t.co/la2JtBQPCQ
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) April 4, 2024