William Wragg resigns Tory whip after divulging MPs’ phone numbers

William Wragg told the Times he gave up colleagues’ numbers after he had sent intimate pictures of himself, saying he was ‘scared’ and ‘mortified’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

William Wragg has resigned the Conservative party whip days after admitting to giving out colleagues’ personal phone numbers to someone he had met on a dating app.

Wragg, who represents Hazel Grove, will now sit as an independent MP. Earlier on Tuesday he resigned as chair of the Commons’ public administration and constitutional affairs committee and as vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs.