Letter from London

Dominic McGrath: Why a honeytrap sexting scam has Westminster politicos agog

The curious case of a flurry of provocative WhatsApp messages has kept tongues wagging throughout the traditional Easter political break

The story has baffled Westminster since first being broken by the website Politico

British politicians will return to the House of Commons on Monday after a lengthy three-week recess, a restorative break for hard-working MPs far away from the hurly-burly of Westminster.

For journalists too, it's a time to relax a little, schedule a few casual coffees and dig into some of those long-term projects they’ve been putting off. Except, it rarely works like that.

Long-time occupants of the corridors of power here in London are known to ...