A Conservative MP has said he will complain to the new press regulator over the "entrapment" by a Sunday newspaper which prompted a government minister to resign.
The Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday that Brooks Newmark - the Minister for Civil Society and a founder of the Women2Win campaign group - had exchanged explicit pictures over the internet with a reporter posing as a young Tory PR woman.
The 56-year-old married father of five tendered his resignation after learning that the newspaper was about to publish details of their exchanges.
Mark Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, said on Twitter he would be referring the story to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), which recently replaced the Press Complaints Commission.
He told his 3,200 Twitter followers: "Test case for IPSO Will be making formal complaint over attempted entrapment by Mirror."
Speaking to the BBC, he said: "It is in the public interest that their actions are fully investigated. This is the first real test as to whether the new body, Ipso, has any teeth."
The Sunday Mirror said the story was in the public interest.
Alison Phillips, Mirror weekend editor, told the Guardian: "This investigation was brought to the Sunday Mirror by a freelance reporter. The investigation, which had a clear public interest, was carried out following information from a reliable source."
