Poll: Were the Sunday Mirror's tactics in the Brooks Newmark story justified?
On the eve of the Conservative Party conference, Cabinet Office minister Brooks Newmark resigned after reportedly sending explicit pictures of himself to an undercover newspaper reporter in a tabloid sting.
According to the Sunday Mirror, Mr Newmark - the Minister for Civil Society and a founder of the Women2Win campaign group - allegedly exchanged X-rated pictures over the internet with a reporter posing as a Tory PR girl.
The 56-year-old married father of five tendered his resignation after learning that the newspaper was about to publish details of their exchanges.
"I have decided to resign as Minister for Civil Society having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper. I would like to appeal for the privacy of my family to be respected at this time," he said in a statement.
