Honeytrap scandal: William Wragg admits leaking MPs’ phone numbers

Oh dear. There has tonight been a fresh development in the Westminster honeytrap sexting scandal.  William Wragg, the vice chairman of the 1922 committee, has admitted to the Times that he was the source responsible for leaking MPs’ phone numbers to a man he met on the gay dating app Grindr. Wragg, the chairman of the Public Administration Committee, said he provided the details after sending intimate pictures of himself to the user. Wragg said he was ‘scared that the man ‘had compromising things on me’. And now, thanks to him, they have compromising things on others…

Those colleagues – which included several unnamed MPs, parliamentary staffers and a political journalist – were sent unsolicited flirtatious messages from senders identifying themselves as ‘Charlie’ or ‘Abi’. The Times claims that two MPs responded by sending an explicit picture of themselves. Wragg, 36, says he is ‘mortified’ and has apologised for his ‘weakness.’ His connection to the scandal emerged on Wednesday as MPs confided in each other about their suspicions.