Senior figures suggest a foreign state, others believe a political insider is the more likely culprit
British MPs have been the target of a honeytrap with explicit messages from anonymous WhatsApp accounts, to gain their trust before convincing at least one serving MP to hand over intimate pictures of themselves. What’s not known is who is behind these messages, what their motive is, and what they will do with the photographs of those politicians.
On Thursday, Tory MP William Wragg admitted giving the personal phone numbers of fellow MPs to a person he met on the Grindr dating app. He said he had sent photographs of himself to the individual and feared what they would do with the pictures if he didn’t comply.
