A Labour MP has been sacked over offensive comments made in a private WhatsApp group. Andrew Gwynne, the former health minister, was dismissed after messages he sent expressing his hope that a pensioner who did not vote Labour would die before the next election were revealed.
Greater Manchester Police has said that a 'non-crime hate incident' has been recorded after a health minister was sacked over the weekend following comments made in a WhatsApp group chat. Andrew Gwynne , the former health minister, was dismissed over the weekend after offensive remarks he made in a WhatsApp group came to light.
According to The Mail on Sunday, Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, sent a post expressing his hope that a pensioner who did not vote Labour would die before the next election. The newspaper reports that Gwynne shared a letter from a 72-year-old Stockport resident regarding bin collections, who stated she did not vote for Labour. Gwynne allegedly responded to the letter by saying: 'Dear resident, F*** your bins. I'm re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you'll have croaked it by the all-outs.'Gwynne is also accused of making anti-Semitic 'jokes' about a constituent being 'mown down' by a truck. He joked about someone's name sounding 'Jewish', saying: 'He sounds too militaristic and too Jewish. Is he in Mossad?' The minister also made disparaging remarks about MP Diane Abbott when she stood in for then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister's Question in October 2019. He said: 'Was David Lammy not available? I'd also take the corpse of Bernie Grant. Or Desmond Swayne? Justin Trudeau??' The Mail on Sunday gained access to the closed WhatsApp group, which was established in 2019. His offensive comments included 'jokes' about Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner performing a sex act. Gwynne is the fourth high-profile figure to leave Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Government since the party's election victory in July last year. His sacking follows the departures of Tulip Siddiq as Treasury minister in January, Louise Haigh as transport secretary in November, and Sue Gray as Downing Street chief of staff in October. Meanwhile, Oliver Ryan, the MP for Burnley who was elected last summer, is under investigation over comments in the same group and is expected to meet with the chief whip on Monday. Taking to X on Sunday, Ryan said: 'Some of the comments made in that group were completely unacceptable, and I fully condemn them.'I regret not speaking out at the time, and I recognise that failing to do so was wrong.
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