Police investigate after explicit photos sent to MPs

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The Metropolitan Police are assessing reports of a parliamentary honeytrap sexting scam. Conservative MP William Wragg has revealed he was blackmailed into sharing his colleagues’ phone numbers after sharing intimate images of himself. Mr Wragg said on Thursday he was “manipulated" into giving personal phone numbers to a man he met on a dating app. Scotland Yard confirmed it was in contact with Leicestershire Police and Parliamentary Security amid concerns other MPs and their staff could be victims of blackmail. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:03 In recent days, a number of members of Parliament

00:16 have faced pressures and intimidation

00:18 from members of the government because of their declared--

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00:35 --is for them to consider what they are being asked to say,

00:56 a question that faces the government,

00:59 and I would suggest my uncle and right--

01:01 The MP involved has given a courageous and fulsome

01:07 apology.

01:08 But the lesson here for all MPs is

01:11 that they need to be very careful about cybersecurity.

01:14 And indeed, it's the lesson for members of the public

01:17 as well, because this is something

01:18 that we are all having to face in our daily lives.

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01:28 The vote in favor of Hong Kong is standing.

01:31 They've been locked out.

01:32 They've been-- streets, stones, workplaces, for example.

01:39 This is a much more sweeping approach.

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