In the latest happening of the crazy political sex scandals, a British MP was set up and nailed for sending a “sex photo” to an undercover reporter.

The problem is, the reporter was posing as a female admirer and entrapped the Tory MP, Brooks Newmark, by asking him to send the photo after sending some herself.

That newspaper is Britain’s lowbrow tabloid The Sunday Mirror, which is now under fire from all quarters for allegedly entrapping Tory MP Brooks Newmark in a “sexting” sting after an anonymous freelance reporter engaged the politician on Twitter using a fake account.

Newmark was approached online by “Sophie Wittams,” a blond, flirty, “twentysomething Tory PR girl.” Except Sophie was really a male reporter, whose name is presently unknown, and the pictures of her were of a Swedish female model, now furious that her picture was used in this way.

Newmark obviously had to resign “having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper.”

This image was used in the sting to lure in Brooks Newmark:

Check out the full story on the Daily Beast.