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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by James Hill and Fraser Nelson.

So James, the talk of Westminster today is all about honey and honey traps.

Tell us about what's been happening we found out to William Ragg MP.

Yes, this was a revelation in the times today that William Ragg was the person responsible for

passing on the phone numbers of several different contacts.

We think up to about a dozen people, which were then used to then send them sort of flirty

messages and attempt to try and also entrap them and blackmail them as well.

And so William Ragg came out with this last night,

which was revealed by the Times newspaper,

and he's apologized and said the reason he did this,

passed on these numbers was because there was incriminating material

on himself.

So effectively a victim of blackmail.

But of course there's a bit of a divide here because some people are saying, hang on a sack,

this person has chosen to throw his colleagues under the bus.

Others are saying, well, he was a victim could happen to anyone, etc.

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