Tory MP who found himself naked in brothel at 4am feared he was victim of foreign honeytrap 

The Tory MP who rang a Conservative Party manager begging to be extracted from a brothel feared that he was the victim of a foreign sting operation, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

As revealed by this newspaper last month, the MP rang a senior Conservative at 4am and pleaded: ‘I’m in a brothel. I don’t know how I got here and I can’t find my clothes.’

The MP’s bizarre predicament – which has caused jitters in the party because he represents a seat high on Labour’s target list for the next election – was only resolved when the senior party figure sent someone to ‘extract’ the MP from the brothel in one of London’s seedier neighbourhoods.

He is understood to believe that his drinks had been spiked because he did not have any recollection of how he had come to be there, and even feared that he had been targeted in a honeytrap by agents of Russia or China.

The incident has prompted fevered speculation in the Commons about the identity of the MP, whom this newspaper has agreed not to name.

A Tory MP ‘woke up naked in a brothel and called another politician for help’ (file image)

Senior party figures expressed scepticism about the honeytrap theory, with one saying: ‘I can’t think of a single useful thing he could tell the Russians or the Chinese’ (file image)

But last night, senior party figures expressed scepticism about the honeytrap theory, with one saying: ‘I can’t think of a single useful thing he could tell the Russians or the Chinese.’

MPs were also advised last week to remove the email facility from their phones because of the ‘threat of Russian hacking’ – although many have refused. 

It comes after the security services gave private warnings that the increase in international tensions with countries such as China and Russia could lead to attempts to target MPs who are susceptible to being compromised.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also recently urged MPs to be on their guard against approaches by what are privately referred to as ‘foreign actors’.

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Last year – shortly before the brothel incident – Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, warned that Russia and China were both desperate to gain a foothold in the Commons by targeting MPs and their advisers.

He said: ‘It’s always been the case that people close to the seat of power will be subject to attempted influence. The assertiveness of some of that influencing might be on the rise.’

The agency also revealed that an alleged Chinese operative had infiltrated Parliament to interfere in UK politics. 

MI5 said Christine Ching Kui Lee ‘established links’ for the Chinese Communist Party with current and aspiring MPs, giving politicians donations funded by foreign nationals in China and Hong Kong.

One of the most notorious Russian entrapment experts, Anna Chapman, is back in the news this weekend over her links to Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates. 

The Daily Mail revealed that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had threatened to expose Mr Gates over an alleged affair he had with Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player nearly 30 years his junior.

Ms Antonova was an acquaintance of Ms Chapman, a member of a Russian spy ring who was exposed as a sleeper agent and deported from the US in 2010.

Whatever the exact circumstances of the MP’s predicament, it will add to concerns about the culture at Westminster, where politicians are separated from their families for long stretches of the week and work long hours.

Tory MP Charles Walker has described Parliament as ‘a screwdriver that prises the lid off a tin of paint’, adding: ‘If your marriage is weak, it might have failed in ten years – but Parliament will ensure it falls apart in five.’

A source said: ‘The MP seems genuinely baffled about how he came to be in that place.

‘He is convinced he had his drinks spiked, but no one is quite sure. We just had to get him out of there.

‘The fact that he holds a very marginal seat has made it less of a laughing matter.’