Photos sent on dating app
British politician blackmailed after sexting
April 5, 2024, 5:12 p.m
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A sex scandal rocks the British Parliament. Conservative MP William Wragg sends intimate images via a dating app for gay men. He is then blackmailed – and passes on sensitive data. The method obviously has a system.
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. “I was worried because he had something against me,” Wragg told the Times. “I hurt people because I was weak. I was scared. I feel humiliated.” The police are investigating.
Is there foreign intelligence behind it?
Sexting is the private exchange of self-produced photos with erotic content via cell phone or the Internet. 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.