A Labour Party spokesperson said: ‘As part of our WhatsApp group investigation, a group of councillors have been administratively suspended from the Labour Party.
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)] 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.
Nearly a dozen Labour councillors have been suspended from the party for involvement in a WhatsApp group that has already seen two MPs lose the whip.
Ahead of the general election on July 4th, electoral forecasts are predicting a Labour win, which would allow the party to replace another brick in its "red wall" of traditionally Labour-aligned constituencies across the Midlands and Northern England.
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.
