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Sexting blackmail: Tory MP passes on numbers
William Wragg is openly gay. photo
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William Wragg was blackmailed with intimate pictures. The police are investigating because Wragg passed on personal telephone numbers of colleagues.
A prominent MP from British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is embroiled in a sexting message blackmail scandal. William Wragg, vice chairman of a key caucus committee, told the Times newspaper that he exchanged intimate photos with a person he met on a dating app for gay men.
He was subsequently blackmailed with the pictures and forwarded personal telephone numbers of colleagues to the contact. The Police are investigating.
Sexting is the private exchange of self-produced photos with erotic content via cell phone or the Internet.
Who is behind it?
The “Politico” portal had previously reported that several politicians, political consultants and journalists working in the parliamentary district had been written to with personal messages and sexually explicit images. These are obviously attempts to compromise these people.
According to the Times, in addition to Tory MP Wragg, another parliamentarian responded to news stories with their own photos. The conservative chairwoman of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Kearns, suspects that a foreign secret service is the mastermind.
For the government, Finance Secretary Gareth Davies described the situation at GB News as “worrying and worrying”. He emphasized that Wragg had apologized. However, there were also calls from the Tory party that the 36-year-old should resign or be suspended from the group, as “Politico” reported. Wragg, who is openly gay, had long ago announced that he would no longer run in the parliamentary elections planned for this year.