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Tory who admitted sharing MPs' phone numbers with dating app contact praised for 'courageous' apology

Sky News Friday, 5 April 2024
The chancellor has praised Tory MP William Wragg for offering a "courageous and fulsome" apology after admitting to The Times that he had shared MPs' personal phone numbers with someone he met on a dating app.
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Reports of explicit images and flirtatious messages being sent to MPs as part of an alleged sexting scam are “incredibly troubling”, Treasury minister Gareth Davies said. Conservative MP William Wragg said on Thursday he was “manipulated” into giving personal phone numbers of colleagues to a...

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