Last week, the Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester told The Times he had been targeted by a suspected honeytrap plot.
Wragg admitted sharing colleagues' details with an account met on a dating appMP William Wragg has 'voluntarily' given up the Conservative whip after he admitted giving his colleagues' phone numbers to a suspected scammer, a spokesperson for the Tory whips has said.
Police are now investigating reports explicit images and flirtatious texts were sent to multiple MPs in what is believed to be a 'spear-phishing' attack and a deliberate attempt to compromise Westminster. Attendees told the newspaper an account posing as a man his late 20s had asked at least six people for 'political intelligence' about MPs.
Mr Wragg stepped down from the role of vice-chair of the 1922 Committee on Monday evening, and told the Speaker he would resign as chair of another Commons committee he sits on in light of the scandal.
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