The Conservative MP for Braintree, Brooks Newmark, has resigned his government position after being caught sending explicit photos of himself over social media.
Newmark had only been in the job of minister for civil society for a couple of months before he was found sending pictures of himself over Twitter in a tabloid sting operation, and has decided to resign. He is a married father of five. Newmark assumed he was sending pictures to a woman online, who was actually a male reporter undercover.
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