William Wragg gives up Tory whip amid Westminster honeytrap scandal

The MP admitted to responding to messages on gay dating app Grindr and sending on numbers of colleagues

Source - Daily Telegraph 09/04/24

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William Wragg has given up the Conservative whip after admitting handing over colleagues’ phone numbers in the Westminster honeytrap scandal.

It means he will now sit as an independent MP, rather than a Tory MP, for his constituency of Hazel Grove, Greater Manchester.

The party whips’ office said that Mr Wragg gave up the whip “voluntarily” after relinquishing his roles in the 1922 committee and the Public Accounts committee on Monday. 

A spokesman said: “Following Will Wragg’s decision to step back from his roles on the Public Accounts and 1922 committees, he has also notified the Chief Whip that he is voluntarily relinquishing the Conservative Whip.”

Mr Wragg last week admitted to responding to messages on gay dating app Grindr and sending on numbers of colleagues.