Keir Starmer sacks health minister Andrew Gwynne over WhatsApp messages A Labour MP has said he regrets making “badly misjudged” comments in a WhatsApp group after Sir Keir Starmer sacked him as a minister.
He reportedly posted sexist comments about Angela Rayner, racist remarks about Labour MP Diane Abbott and joked about an elderly woman dying in a closed group chat with Labour figures based around Manchester.
Mr Gwynne posted messages in a WhatsApp group called Trigger Me Timbers, which he shares with more than a dozen Labour councillors, party officials and at least one other MP, the Mail on Sunday reported.
A Labour spokesperson said: “Andrew Gwynne has been administratively suspended as a member of the Labour Party.
Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, has been sacked as health minister and suspended from the Labour Party.
