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Tory MP William Wragg gives MPs blackmail advice two years before his honeytrap sexting scandal, in a resurfaced clip.Mr Wragg said MPs should report matters to the speaker and the Metropolitan Police if being blackmailed, as he addressed Parliament in the 2022 clip.Westminster has since been rocked by the sensational exposé of a honeytrap sexting scam targeting MPs, political journalists and parliamentary staffers. Mr Wragg revealed he lay at the heart of the scandal, admitting that he shared his colleagues’ phone numbers for fear of intimate images of him being leaked. More

Oliver Dowden insisted he was “totally confident” in the Tories as he was shown discouraging polling numbers during a live interview on Sunday, 7 April.The deputy prime minister was asked by Trevor Phillips on Sky News if it was “all over” for the Conservatives” as the country had “stopped listening” to the party.In response, Mr Dowden insisted he was “totally convinced” the numbers before him would narrow when the Tories get into “an actual election campaign.”He said: “These polls still, to a certain extent, are indications of people’s frustrations, especially after being in power for 14 years. More

David Lammy insisted the focus on Angela Rayner is the Conservatives attempting to distract from economic issues facing voters ahead of the May elections.Labour’s shadow foreign secretary was asked about The Mail On Sunday story which claims to have proof she lied about her tax arrangements.Defending his colleague, Mr Lammy told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “She hasn’t broken any rules.“This is because of the May elections and the Tories not wanting to concentrate on their actions.” More

William Wragg is also a “victim” in the honeytrap sexting scandal, a Tory MP has said.The senior Conservative MP for Hazel Grove admitted he was “manipulated” into giving the personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on Grindr.Bosworth MP Dr Luke Evans has also said he was the victim of “cyber flashing” and was the member who first alerted police to the issue as the Met Police open an investigation into “unsolicited messages”.“I’m not excusing what Will has done. But I do think that he is a victim in this, along with all the others… He’s probably come up against a very skilled, manipulative agent,” Tory MP Sir Charles Walker told the BBC. More

Rishi Sunak laughed as he was asked perhaps one of the most important political questions – Why are his trousers so short?A clip of the prime minister interviewing Gordan Ramsay went viral in 2021 as millions were drawn to the shortness of his trousers as he sat down. Mr Sunak’s bespoke tailor, Henry Herbert, defended his fashion style, telling The Independent it “was more professional”.This time the length of the prime minister’s trousers was brought up by The Sun’s political editor Harry Cole during an interview on Wednesday (3 April).Mr Sunak said: “Well I don’t think they are that short.” Pushed on whether he thought his style was trendy, he added: “I tend not to like lots of baggy, baggy stuff at the bottom of my ankle.” More

Rishi Sunak has admitted he doesn’t know when the next general election will be.The prime minister was quizzed on an election date by Harry Cole on The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots podcast on Wednesday (3 April).Mr Sunak said: “I have been clear on that and said I am working on the assumption it is in the second half of the year and I will stick to that.“There is a long-standing tradition that it is the prime ministers who decide when they are going to call an election and I haven’t decided because I have been busy focusing on the things that matter to people.” More

Labour “would sell arms to Israel” if it “abides by humanitarian law”, a shadow minister has said.Speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News on Tuesday, 2 April, Pat McFadden said the opposition party “doesn’t have a boycott of selling arms to Israel.”However, if they were in charge, Mr McFadden said selling arms was “something we would do” if it were believed Israel was “abiding by international humanitarian law”.On whether he believed Israel was following international law, Mr McFadden said: “If there’s proper legal evidence that they aren’t, the Government should come out and say so. More