speaking to someone who knows who i am, and i m trying desperately not to come across as rude. the messages continue. the former mp then replies, asking who it is he s talking to. charlie falsely says he used to work in the office of another mp. he later sends a sexually explicit image, and the former mp blocks the number. the questions now are how widespread this is, who is behind it and whether the attackers got hold of any useful information. we ve seen another series of messages sent to a political journalist from the same number and following a similar pattern. according to the website politico, which first reported the claims, at least 12 people with connections to westminster have been targeted. this wasn tjust, as i d thought, someone being stupid and doing something that they d regret the next day. maybe this is something more sinister than that, potentially malicious. we tried to call the number associated with the messages, but nobody picked up. a parliamentary spo