A senior UK lawmaker fell victim to a sexting scam. His colleagues are being urged to go to police

By PAN PYLAS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held “compromising” material on him. William Wragg, who chairs the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Parliament, told The Times of London newspaper that the man had “compromising things” on him and he was “scared” and “manipulated” into giving his colleagues’ numbers to the unknown individual he had met on the gay dating app Grindr. Treasury minister Gareth Davies urged those affected to go to the police if they felt they were being blackmailed.