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Who are the Westminster honeytrap targets?

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The honeytrap scandal is the talk of the town as politicians, staffers, advisers and even journalists working in Westminster have been targeted by the sexting scammers. First to publicly admit he had engaged with the phishers was the Conservative MP — and until last night, vice chairman of the 1922 Committee — William Wragg MP. Wragg admitted last week that he had received rather salacious messages on Grindr, before confessing that he had in fact reciprocated with an explicit image of his own and even handed over the numbers of other parliamentarians. 

Dr Luke Evans MP was the second politician to admit that he had been sent explicit images by a suspicious number on WhatsApp, in a video he posted to Facebook. And the third Tory MP — and first woman — to admit to being targeted was Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who had some rather angry words for Wragg…

And, so far, three journalists have admitted to being targeted too: the Sunday Times’ deputy political editor Harry Yorke, the BBC’s chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman and Novara Media’s Michael Walker.

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