The adage that those who fail to study history are destined to repeat it apparently hasn’t reached the Twittersphere.
British Cabinet minister Brooks Newmark tendered his resignation over the weekend after learning that the Sunday Mirror tabloid was publishing a story about his having been lured by a fake temptress into sending sexually explicit photographs of himself to a male journalist via Twitter.
Brooks Newmark, shown in a July 15 photo, resigned from the Cabinet of British Prime Minister David Cameron after being ensnared in a sexting scandal revealed by Britain’s Sunday Mirror. (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)
The Conservative Party member serving as minister for civil society in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government tweeted revealing photos of himself in response to a message from a Twitter user claiming to be “Sophie Wittams,” described as a “twentysomething Tory PR girl” alleged to be depicted in an attached photo of a bikini-clad torso and another of a beautiful young blond’s visage.
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