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Health minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked after apologising for offence caused by a string of abusive WhatsApp messages insulting constituents, fellow MPs and councillors. Prime Minister Sir ...

Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, has been sacked as health minister and suspended from the Labour Party. He reportedly posted sexist comments about Angela Rayner, racist remarks about ...

Mr Gwynne appeared to describe the constituent as a “massive b****”, while other members of the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group joked about how the “fat” woman needed to exercise more.

"There's a familiar pattern in Westminster these days," said Katy Balls in The Guardian. "An MP writes in haste a message to colleagues on WhatsApp. The contents leak to the press. Then there's ...

Health minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked over comments posted on a WhatsApp group. Mr Gwynne reportedly made antisemitic comments and 'joked' about a pensioner constituent, saying he hoped ...

Keir Starmer is under pressure to punish other Labour figures part of a WhatsApp group in which a minister allegedly sent racist, sexist and antisemitic messages. The WhatsApp group called Trigger ...

Ashley Dalton, Labour MP for West Lancashire, has been appointed as a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care after Andrew Gwynne was sacked over the weekend following the emergence ...

A Labour MP who was sacked as a minister by Sir Keir Starmer over comments made in a WhatsApp group has said he regrets the “badly misjudged” remarks. Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and ...

Andrew Gwynne also joked about killing a fellow MP with a pickaxe and suggested a prominent member of the community should be bullied. Other members of the WhatsApp group called her “fat”.