Labour’s deputy national campaign co-ordinator, Ellie Reeves, has described reports of explicit images and flirtatious messages being sent to MPs as part of an alleged sexting scam as “really concerning”. Conservative MP William Wragg said on Thursday he was “manipulated” into giving personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on a gay dating app, after he had sent intimate pictures of himself. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I think it's a really concerning story and we need to see all of the details and that's a matter for the Conservative Party.
00:07 It's now subject to a police investigation so it's difficult to say too much about it but obviously it is very alarming.
00:16 I think it's just really important that we do have security advice.
00:21 We don't know all the details of what's happened in this case and it is subject to that in police investigation.
00:27 I think anyone that thinks they might have been a victim of this scam should contact the police and the parliamentary authorities to assist in that investigation.