Former Tory MP William Wragg was at the centre of a sexting scandal while Sir Keir Starmer's deputy Angela Rayner can't seem to shake off questions about her tax affairs.
We may have been in Easter recess the past couple of weeks, but on both sides of the party divide, there were those who did not get a rest from politics. MP William Wragg undoubtedly had a dysfunctional week as the man at the centre of the Westminster honeytrap scandal. He resigned the Conservative party whip as some colleagues looked on with a mixture of bemusement and anger at Number 10's handling of the whole sorry affair.
'People give numbers out all the time. Having people's phone numbers is a massive currency in Westminster,' explains Jess, who points out that MPs are using personal phones in parliament. 'The trouble is that I think people think we have parliamentary phones but it's just my personal phone, so they don't own it. I'm way more careful about my parliamentary computer and the iPad they gave me.
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