Ashley Dalton appointed health minister after Gwynne sacking 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 of offensive comments in a WhatsApp group.
“Between 2019 and early 2022, I was a member of a WhatsApp group created by my MP and former employer, Andrew Gwynne,” Mr Ryan said in a statement posted on X.
Mr Gwynne left the Government over the weekend and apologised for comments made in the group “which I deeply regret and would not make today”.
The Prime Minister dismissed Mr Gwynne as a minister as soon as he became aware of the comments, it is understood.
Mr Gwynne reportedly said that he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon die after she asked a councillor about bin collections, and joked about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck.
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