Tory MP Resigns From Committees Over Honey Trap Sexting Scandal

An MP has stepped down from two parliamentary positions, including the influential Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, after admitting to sharing phone numbers of politicians with an individual he met on a gay dating app. As the honey trap scandal involving William Wragg continues to shake Westminster, on Tuesday, a spokesman for Sir Graham Brady MP told The Epoch Times by email: “It is correct that Mr. Wragg has stood down as vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee.” The 1922 Committee is an influential group of backbench Conservative members of Parliament who discuss party matters, policies, and concerns. Blackmailed Mr. Wragg, 36, told The Times Of London newspaper last week that he had sent intimate photographs of himself to a stranger he met on Grindr, a gay dating app, but feared he was about to be blackmailed, so he handed over the personal phone numbers of colleagues....