11 Labour councillors suspended in ‘Trigger Me Timbers’ WhatsApp probe Nearly a dozen Labour councillors have been suspended from the party as part of its investigation into a WhatsApp group that has already seen two MPs lose the whip.
A Labour Party spokesperson said: “As part of our WhatsApp group investigation, a group of councillors have been administratively suspended from the Labour Party.
The group of 11 is understood to include Allison Gwynne, the wife of former health minister Andrew Gwynne – who has been sacked over a series of offensive comments made in the chat.
The councillors who were administratively suspended on Tuesday are understood to include Ms Gwynne, former council leader Brenda Warrington, and Claire Reid, a member of Labour’s national policy forum.
Mr Gwynne left Government and was suspended from Labour at the weekend after reports he had sent messages to the group including a joke about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck.
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