UK lawmaker admits passing colleagues’ numbers to stranger met on dating app
- William Wragg, 36, a lawmaker for PM Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party since 2015, had felt compromised after he sent the online stranger intimate photos of himself
- This was reportedly a wider operation targeting people working in the UK parliament, with 12 men including a serving government minister known to have been targeted

William Wragg told the Times newspaper he had handed over the phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on a dating app, part of what is reported to be a wider operation targeting people working in the British parliament.
The Times said those colleagues were then sent unsolicited flirtatious messages, and two lawmakers had responded by sending explicit photographs of themselves.
“They had compromising things on me,” Wragg, 36, told the newspaper. “They wouldn’t leave me alone. They would ask for people. I gave them some numbers, not all of them. I told him to stop. He’s manipulated me and now I’ve hurt other people.”
News outlet Politico said 12 men including a serving government minister were known to have been targeted in the suspected operation, receiving flirtatious messages and pictures from people who called themselves Abi or Charlie.
Neither the Times nor Politico said who was believed to be responsible for the messaging campaign.