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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

William Wragg gives up Tory whip after divulging MPs' phone numbers to suspected scammer

MP William Wragg has “voluntarily” given up the Conservative whip after he admitted giving his colleagues’ phone numbers to a suspected scammer he met on a dating app, a spokesperson for the Tory whips has said.

Mr Wragg will no longer sit as a Conservative MP following the decision, which comes after he resigned as vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee and from his role heading the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC).

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