William Wragg has resigned the Conservative get together whip days after admitting to giving out colleagues’ private telephone numbers to somebody he had met on a relationship app.

Wragg, who represents Hazel Grove, will now sit as an impartial MP. Earlier on Tuesday he resigned as chair of the Commons’ public administration and constitutional affairs committee and as vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs.

He stop the parliamentary get together after admitting he had given up colleagues’ numbers to the suspected perpetrator of a honeytrap sexting rip-off.

The Conservative get together chair, Richard Holden, mentioned it was proper for Wragg to resign the whip. Requested whether or not Wragg had jumped or been pushed, Holden advised Sky Information the now-independent MP had “made his choice”, including: “It’s fairly clear his profession in public life is at an finish.”

Wragg advised the Occasions final week that he handed over colleagues’ numbers after he had despatched intimate photos of himself, saying he was “scared” and “mortified”. He has since confronted calls to resign as an MP.

Two police forces are investigating experiences that specific pictures and flirtatious messages had been despatched to MPs as a part of an alleged “spear-phishing” assault.

A minimum of a dozen folks working in Westminster, together with a serving authorities minister, obtained unsolicited WhatsApp messages from two suspicious cell numbers.

Leicestershire police mentioned final week it had launched an investigation into the experiences. On Friday, the Metropolitan police mentioned it was additionally investigating unsolicited specific pictures and messages despatched to MPs. The investigation isn’t thought to contain the safety providers.

Luke Evans, a Conservative MP, revealed that he was focused and that he was the MP who first alerted the authorities. In a video printed on Fb, Evans mentioned he had been despatched a photograph of a unadorned lady on WhatsApp, which was adopted by a message 10 days later.

The MP for Bosworth mentioned: “The primary set of messages I acquired was on a day I used to be with my spouse and I acquired a one-time open picture on WhatsApp of an specific picture of a unadorned woman. As quickly as I acquired these, the subsequent day I reported it to the police, the authorities and the chief whip.

“Ten days later I acquired one other set of messages. This time, nevertheless, I used to be sat with my group within the constituency workplace, so we had been in a position to report the dialog and catch images and movies of the messages coming by means of together with one other specific feminine picture.”

He added: “I’m simply happy I blew the whistle, reported it to the authorities and it’s now being appeared into.”

Two political journalists, Harry Yorke of the Sunday Occasions and the Occasions and the BBC’s Henry Zeffman, have since revealed they had been additionally focused.

Politico has reported that at the very least 12 males working in Westminster have been focused within the cyber-attack. They had been despatched messages from somebody figuring out themselves both as “Abi” or “Charlie”.

The Guardian spoke to a former authorities particular adviser who was focused by a WhatsApp consumer calling themselves “Abigail” or “Abi”. He obtained the primary message on 23 January 2023, suggesting the phishing operation had been underneath means for at the very least 14 months. He obtained a message from an unknown quantity within the night that mentioned: “Very long time no converse [eyes emoji], how’re you?”

The WhatsApp consumer, who used a younger lady’s picture as their profile image, claimed to have met the previous particular adviser on the Midland resort bar close to the Conservative get together convention in Manchester. When he mentioned he had no reminiscence of the assembly, the sender provided to “jog your reminiscence” and despatched an specific image.

The consumer sending the messages claimed to have met every of their targets at numerous settings regarding their work.

Wragg has beforehand spoken about his psychological well being struggles. In 2022 he took a brief break from his duties as an MP throughout a bout of extreme despair and anxiousness.

The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, mentioned final week that Wragg’s apology was “brave and fulsome”.

Anybody working in parliament who has been affected has been urged to contact the police and the parliamentary safety division.

MILWAUKEE — Greater than an hour after the Milwaukee Bucks misplaced their fourth straight sport, a dispiriting 122-109 defeat to the New York Knicks on Sunday during which they have been outscored 72-48 within the second half, Giannis Antetokounmpo sat alone at his locker in a quiet, near-empty locker room in Fiserv Discussion board considering the Bucks’ slide.

Most nights, Antetokounmpo tends to be one of many final gamers out of the locker room as Pat Connaughton might be preparing just a few lockers away or Giannis’ brother, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, might be chatting with him in Greek. On Sunday, Giannis and Thanasis have been the final two gamers out. There was little dialog between them.

When Giannis Antetokounmpo ultimately spoke with the media, he addressed the Bucks’ spirit amid their struggles. Whereas answering a query about his staff being unable to seek out and play with pleasure of their latest play, he discovered himself asking, and appearing out, a collection of rhetorical questions.

“When was the final time Malik did…” Antetokounmpo requested earlier than appearing out teammate Malik Beasley’s trademark 3-point shimmy celebration.

“When was the final time Pat hit a 3 and did…” Antetokounmpo requested earlier than signaling a 3 and wiping it throughout his chest as Connaughton does after hitting a giant shot from deep.

“When was the final time Jae hit a 3, went again and he swags again like…” Antetokounmpo requested as he pretended to backpedal down the ground like Jae Crowder.

“When was the final time I dunked on someone and went ‘Ahhhhhh!,’” Antetokounmpo requested as he pretended to yell at an imaginary, sold-out dwelling crowd after an enormous dunk.

“It’s nearly like we’re going via the motions,” Antetokounmpo stated. “We gotta discover our pleasure again.”

Pleasure has been tough for the Bucks to come back by lately, as they’ve misplaced six of their final seven video games and discover themselves of their longest shedding streak of this season. The Bucks (47-31) are nonetheless second within the Japanese Convention standings, as quite a few the opposite groups in the midst of the East playoff image have struggled as nicely. However the Knicks and Orlando Magic are a single sport behind Milwaukee.

As they method the common season’s last week, the Bucks are enjoying a few of their worst basketball, however they haven’t stopped making an attempt to proper the ship earlier than the postseason and dealing towards their finish aim of an NBA championship.

On Saturday, in accordance with sources briefed on the assembly, Bucks coach Doc Rivers held a movie session with the staff’s high 9 veteran rotation gamers in Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard, Khris Middleton, Brook Lopez, Beasley, Bobby Portis, Patrick Beverley, Connaughton and Crowder. Throughout that session, every participant was given an opportunity to talk his thoughts and clarify what they’ve been seeing from their very own perspective, in addition to how they consider the staff must function selflessly as a unit transferring ahead.

“It’s solely the beginning of those powerful and crucial conversations,” one supply described the session.

In opposition to the Knicks on Sunday, although, the Bucks have been unable to place that dialog towards a win. The sport began off nicely because the Bucks constructed a double-digit lead within the first half, however issues shortly deteriorated.

With 6:12 left within the second quarter, Middleton left the sport after receiving a tough shot to the face from Donte DiVincenzo following a miss on the rim by the Knicks guard. Whereas not intentional, as he was touchdown, DiVincenzo’s fist appeared to strike Middleton’s face. Middleton instantly began to bleed from his mouth as he sat on the ground below the Knicks basket.

“Khris was nice to start to the sport; he was completely implausible,” Rivers stated after the sport. “You simply really feel dangerous for him. The man can’t catch a break. I imply, what are the percentages you go right into a sport, ‘OK, tonight, will probably be my tooth will get knocked out.’

“He’s having a kind of seasons proper now, however that’s OK as a result of it may possibly all flip for him. I believed he got here with nice spirit tonight, too, so simply powerful luck.“

Middleton didn’t return, leaving the world instantly after exiting the sport for an emergency journey to a dentist, in accordance with Rivers.

Shedding Middleton was unlucky, as Sunday was the primary time the Bucks had their large three of Antetokounmpo, Lillard and Middleton on the ground collectively to start out a sport in additional than per week and simply the eighth time they began a sport collectively below Rivers this season. In actuality, it’s nearer to only six video games, as Middleton has left two of these video games early — with a left ankle sprain vs. the Phoenix Suns on Feb. 6 and Sunday night time towards the Knicks — because of damage.

If the Bucks are going to discover a technique to make a deep playoff run, they may want a wholesome roster, however additionally they should construct higher chemistry between their three greatest offensive gamers.

“We began getting a two-man factor working and dealing and dealing, however it was simply me and Giannis on the market,” Lillard stated of the Bucks’ offensive circulate below Rivers. “We gotta be capable of have issues working when it’s me, Khris and Giannis on the market, and that’s all a part of a course of.

“You’ll be able to’t simply put it on the market and say, ‘Do it,’ and it simply flows clean. We received a brand new coach coming in and there’s issues that he needs to be finished and he needs it to be finished a sure approach.”

With out Middleton within the second half, the Bucks offense began to stall and revert to an excessive amount of isolation play, a daily drawback this season. After aiding on 17 of their 20 first-half baskets, the Bucks stopped transferring the ball and their offense stalled. Within the first six minutes of the second half, the Bucks scored six factors and noticed an 11-point halftime lead disappear, and the Knicks shortly rattled off 20 factors to take a 70-67 lead with 6:03 remaining within the third quarter. The Knicks didn’t relinquish the lead, remaining comfortably in management for the ultimate quarter and a half on their technique to a 13-point win.

Regardless of their latest struggles, although, the Bucks’ staff leaders proceed to share positivity, and their inner perception within the skill to contend for a championship this season has not wavered.

“I imply, as loopy as it’d sound, I really feel good,” Lillard stated. “Clearly, I hate how the final two weeks or so, nonetheless lengthy it’s been, has gone. It’s uncomfortable and it’s irritating to lose video games that we must always win after which have a sport like tonight the place we begin off enjoying nicely after which have a foul third quarter and get these guys believing after which they take over the sport. However once I look across the locker room, I simply be ok with it.

“I see Giannis, Khris, Bobby and Brook and Jae and Pat, Beas. After I go searching, I simply have a real perception in what we now have, our expertise, how lengthy we’ve been round. And I do know that typically it will get darkish. This league is a tricky league. Typically you might have laborious instances. And I feel that’s what it’s for us. And when this sort of stuff occurs, everyone’s going to say how dangerous it’s. And ‘That is the issue.’ (or) ‘They gotta do that; they gotta try this.’ However if you simply hold combating in these conditions, you by no means know when it’s going to show.

“That’s why you gotta keep collectively, you gotta hold believing. And these are the moments the place you discover out who’s an actual one and who’s not, as a result of everyone’s going to be saying unfavorable stuff and the way fallacious it’s and the way dangerous it’s, and you’ll fold or not fold. That’s what we’re going to study ourselves going into the playoffs, primarily based on the expertise that we having proper now.”

Whereas positivity and a powerful perception are good to own and preserve, the Bucks should flip issues round shortly as a result of the Boston Celtics, the NBA’s greatest staff, are coming to city on Tuesday, and the Bucks solely have one week remaining within the common season to organize themselves for the postseason.

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(Picture of Damian Lillard, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Doc Rivers: Patrick McDermott / Getty Pictures)

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks’ curler coaster season has hit its nadir with the playoffs lower than two weeks away.

The Bucks have misplaced 4 straight video games and 6 of their previous seven. They’re 15-17 underneath coach Doc Rivers after going 32-14 earlier than his arrival.

Though Milwaukee (47-31) has a one-game lead over the Orlando Magic (46-32) and New York Knicks (46-32) within the race for the No. 2 seed within the Jap Convention playoffs behind the Boston Celtics, the Bucks might be going through one other early exit in the event that they don’t flip issues round.

“Positively not a superb feeling,” two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo mentioned Sunday after the Bucks’ 122-109 loss to the New York Knicks. “Form of the setting on the staff doesn’t really feel proper.”

Antetokounmpo then went into extra element concerning his remark in regards to the setting.

“Whenever you lose video games, you don’t really feel good,” he mentioned. “You’re not completely happy. In case you return dwelling, you can’t sit down and watch Amazon Prime and be relaxed and revel in your steak (or) some guys who drink, drink your wine or beer or no matter they drink. Or in my case, do my Legos. When I attempt to put my Legos in place, I’m extra pissed off and I’m hurting my fingers and stuff. That’s what I imply by the setting not feeling good.

“We’re not a dropping staff. We don’t have that mentality. That’s not in us.”

The Bucks have been by means of loads of upheaval ever since they’d the league’s finest regular-season report final 12 months, however misplaced to the Miami Warmth within the first spherical of the playoffs.

They fired coach Mike Budenholzer and purchased star guard Damian Lillard. Budenholzer was changed by Adrian Griffin, who bought dismissed halfway by means of the season regardless of having a 30-13 report. Joe Prunty went 2-1 as an interim head coach earlier than Rivers got here aboard.

The teaching change was a sign the Bucks weren’t happy with their struggles on protection and uncomfortably shut wins over dropping groups throughout Griffin’s temporary tenure. However the inconsistency has continued underneath Rivers.

The Bucks misplaced seven of Rivers’ first 10 video games. They gained six straight after the All-Star break. Now they’re slumping once more.

“These are the moments the place you discover out who’s an actual one and who’s not, as a result of everyone’s going to be saying detrimental stuff, how improper it’s and the way dangerous it’s,” Lillard mentioned. “You may fold or not fold. That’s what we’re going to find out about ourselves going into the playoffs, based mostly on the expertise we’re having proper now.”

Any comparability of the data underneath Griffin and Rivers ought to point out the extenuating circumstances.

Milwaukee’s schedule bought considerably more durable after the teaching change. Sunday’s loss to the Knicks marked simply the fourth time previously 29 video games that Antetokounmpo, Lillard and three-time All-Star Khris Middleton have been all obtainable, and Middleton left after getting hit within the mouth halfway by means of the second quarter. These three gamers have been collectively for about two-thirds of the pre-Rivers video games, although Middleton was on a minutes restriction for a lot of of them.

However even with out all of their high gamers, the Bucks have way more expertise than the Washington Wizards, Memphis Grizzlies and Toronto Raptors. All three of these groups have overwhelmed the Bucks over the previous week.

“This staff is just too proficient, in my view, to undergo this, irrespective of who’s been out and in,” Rivers mentioned. “Each staff has guys out. I’ve bought to determine that out.”

Reserve guard Pat Connaughton mentioned after the loss to the Raptors that the Bucks wanted to play with extra pleasure. Antetokounmpo agreed with that evaluation Sunday.

“It’s nearly like we’re going by means of the motions,” Antetokounmpo mentioned. “We’ve bought to search out that pleasure again. To ensure that us to search out that pleasure again, we’ve bought to maneuver the ball. … When everyone touches the ball, everyone has that vitality.”

The Bucks don’t have a lot time to search out it earlier than the postseason. Milwaukee has simply 4 regular-season video games left, and all are towards playoff-bound groups. They host Boston on Tuesday and Orlando on Wednesday earlier than visiting Oklahoma Metropolis on Friday and Orlando on Sunday.

The Bucks are assured they will nonetheless flip it round due to how nicely they’ve performed once they’re at their finest. The Bucks blew out Oklahoma Metropolis 118-93 simply earlier than the beginning of this tailspin.

“All people simply stored each other accountable (towards the Thunder),” Antetokounmpo mentioned. “I believe typically we simply don’t. We simply decide and select. However the perception is there. The assumption is there. However we’ve bought to get higher. All through these 4 video games, 5 video games left, we’ve bought to construct good habits. We’ve bought to observe movie. We’ve bought to spend time collectively. As a result of if we don’t, we’re most likely going to be in bother.”

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Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has mentioned it’s unlikely he would ever play as a part of the group once more.

Knopfler mentioned he wouldn’t play with the band once more as he needed to “develop and work with completely different gamers and have a much bigger line-up”, regardless of loving his time on the highway.

“The final time I had the band in, and that’s the excessive level for me, I’d most likely have had about six or seven guys. Larger than the little four-piece that was stripped down once we had it, and that was nice, I liked it.”

The group, which he fashioned in 1977 with brother David and buddies John Illsley and Choose Withers, discovered world success with hit singles together with “Romeo and Juliet”, “Cash for Nothing”, and “Sultans of Swing”, earlier than disbanding in 1995.

Knopfler didn’t have any regrets about his time within the group, saying “I had an absolute ball for so long as it lasted till it obtained so large that I didn’t know the names of all of the roadies, it was simply getting large.”

He added: “It obtained so large, we have been truly leapfrogging phases, and that’s what you need to do while you get to a sure scale.”

The acclaimed guitarist’s feedback got here throughout an look on BBC Breakfast. He talked about one of many causes for not desirous to carry out with the band as having constructed his personal studio, which he “actually loves.”

“I haven’t had a foul day in there”, he defined. “It’s given me the prospect to essentially push. I imply, this final album, I’ve completed far too many songs.”

Lately, the musician has collaborated with fellow band member Man Fletcher as a part of a charity single for Teenage Most cancers Belief. He assembled greater than 60 performers, together with Bruce Springsteen, Sir Brian Might and Eric Clapton, for a nine-minute recording of “Going Dwelling (Theme From Native Hero)”.

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The file, launched on March 15, additionally featured contributions from Slash, Sting, Roger Daltrey, and Sir Ringo Starr, and was launched beneath the star’s supergroup, Guitar Heroes.

Knopfler can be engaged on his newest solo album, One Deep River, which is scheduled for launch on April 12.

Arsenal are Champions League quarter-finalists for the primary time since 2010 and face an enormous problem in opposition to German giants Bayern Munich.

The final time the Gunners made it this far in 2010 they took on defending champions Barcelona and misplaced 6-3 on mixture.

They’ll be hoping will probably be so much nearer this time, and given Bayern’s poor kind this season, Mikel Arteta’s facet have probability of successful.

The Champions League is the one trophy that has famously eluded Arsenal, they got here shut in 2006 but additionally misplaced to Barcelona 2-1 within the remaining.

They’ve gone toe to toe with Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis this season, who’re considered two of one of the best groups in Europe, so in the event that they’re ever going to win the large one then now’s their finest alternative.

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Their romance is alleged to have blossomed throughout rehearsals for the newest sequence of ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

Every day Echo readers might keep in mind when Hatton visited Southampton to observe his soccer group play earlier than mixing with residence followers within the pub.

Ricky had made a particular look among the many soccer followers in Southampton after Saints earned a hard-fought draw in opposition to Premier League leaders Manchester Metropolis

Following the 1-1 draw, the previous boxing champion, who can also be a faithful Metropolis fan, mingled with residence supporters at O’Neills, Above Bar Avenue, on January 22.

Summing up the primary half of the match, he mentioned: “I believed we struggled at first.

“Southampton performed recreation. They pressed and bullied us in midfield. We had many of the possession, however each time they attacked, it regarded like they have been going to attain.”

Saints led by 1-0 on the break after defender Kyle Walker-Peters labored a neat one-two with midfielder Nathan Redmond earlier than firing throughout the face of aim to attain the opener.

Hailing from Stockport, the boxer expressed his views on the second half, by which Metropolis managed to stage the rating following a well-executed free kick by Kevin de Bruyne.

“It was a little bit of a mismatch, within the sense Metropolis dominated possession and had numerous probabilities,” he mentioned

“In the end over the total recreation, I believed Southampton performed properly, and I can’t argue with a draw.”

Talking extremely of Saints, Hatton mentioned: “They defended very properly, and have been an excellent group in the present day.

“Perhaps we did sufficient to pinch it within the second half with the possibilities we had, however I feel that conclusion can be disrespectful to Southampton.

“After in the present day, I’m not frightened about Southampton’s place within the Premier League. If they’ll get within the prime 10 this 12 months, I feel they’ll construct on that subsequent season.”