Labour minister is SACKED after vile jibe saying he hopes pensioners who don't vote for the party 'die before the next election' - as we expose his racist and sexist messages

A Labour Minister has been sacked aft The Mail connected Sunday exposed his racist and sexist messages, including 1 vile station saying helium hoped a pensioner who didn't ballot Labour would dice earlier the adjacent election.

Andrew Gwynne besides made anti-Semitic slights and 'jokes' astir a constituent being 'mown down' by a motortruck connected a WhatsApp group.

The Prime Minister stripped Mr Gwynne of his occupation arsenic Health Minister and suspended his rank of the Labour Party erstwhile helium was told astir the contented of the messages yesterday.

A Government spokesperson said: 'The Prime Minister is determined to uphold precocious standards of behaviour successful nationalist bureau and pb a authorities successful the work of moving people. He volition not hesitate to instrumentality enactment against immoderate curate who fails to conscionable these standards, arsenic helium has successful this case.'

In 1 peculiarly shocking comment, the Gorton and Denton MP says helium hopes a 72-year-old pistillate volition soon beryllium dormant aft she dared to inquire astir her bins.

The Stockport nonmigratory wrote to her section councillor saying she hadn't voted Labour, but added: 'As you person been re-elected I thought it would beryllium an due clip to interaction you with respect to the bin collections.'

After the councillor shared the missive among chap Labour figures successful the WhatsApp group, Mr Gwynne wrote a suggested response: 'Dear resident, F*** your bins. I'm re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you'll person croaked it by the all-outs.'

'All-outs' are elections astatine which each assembly spot is contested astatine once, successful opposition to section authorities successful which lone a 3rd of seats are up for grabs astatine each poll.

The messages were exchanged successful a radical called Trigger Me Timbers, which Mr Gwynne shares with much than a twelve Labour councillors, enactment officials and astatine slightest 1 different MP, each based connected the outskirts of Manchester.

The MoS gained entree to thousands of messages from the closed group, which was acceptable up successful 2019, and discovered a barrage of abusive texts. Among them are:

lMr Gwynne saying idiosyncratic 'sounds excessively Jewish' and 'too militaristic', seemingly from their sanction alone;

lRacist comments astir seasoned Labour MP Diane Abbott, mocking her historical accomplishment successful be-coming the archetypal achromatic MP astatine either Despatch Box for Prime Minister's Questions;

l Sexist comments astir Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner performing a enactment act;

lMr Gwynne mocking a section Labour person arsenic 'Colin C*mface'.

The person besides marque violative remarks astir Jewish people. Discussing a Labour gathering successful Reddish, a subordinate of the radical asks if Marshall Rosenberg would beryllium there. It appears to beryllium a notation to a precocious American scientist whose struggle absorption techniques mightiness person been utile successful heated Labour debates.

Mr Gwynne responds: 'No. He sounds excessively militaristic and excessively Jewish. Is helium successful Mossad?'

In 2018, Mr Gwynne made headlines erstwhile it was revealed helium was successful Facebook radical called Labour Supporters successful which anti-Semitic messages were shared.

At the clip helium responded: 'I was added to this Facebook radical without my cognition oregon permission. I DO NOT enactment the posts and I ABHOR anti-Semitism. It has perfectly NO spot successful the Labour Party oregon successful society. End of.'

But months later, helium was taking portion successful anti-Semitic banter successful the WhatsApp group, including taking an seemingly mocking code to those who thought it inappropriate. 'Geoffrey the Giraffe says don't beryllium nasty to the Jews,' helium posted. It's not wide who helium was referring to, but Geoffrey was the logo of the Toys R Us stores.

Alex Hearn, co-director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, said asking if a idiosyncratic with a Jewish sanction is an cause of the Israeli spy bureau Mossad feeds to an enduring anti-Semitism trope of Jews being infil-trators.

He said: 'This alleged 'banter' astir Jews was unnecessary and unpleasant. Themes of disloyal infiltrators crosses the enactment into classical anti-Jewish racism, and should not beryllium acceptable sermon among Labour officials, activists oregon anyplace successful our society.'

Mr Gwynne besides made race-based jokes connected Trigger Me Timbers portion talking astir seasoned achromatic Labour MP Diane Abbott, erstwhile she stood successful for Jeremy Corbyn astatine Prime Minister's Questions successful the Commons successful October 2019.

In the historical move, she became the archetypal achromatic parliamentarian to correspond their enactment astatine the play clash, and it was wildly hailed arsenic a pioneering moment.

When 1 subordinate asks if this groundbreaking infinitesimal for achromatic Britons was a 'joke', Mr Gwynne told the radical it was 'because it's Black History Month apparently.'

A councillor past suggests different achromatic Labour MPs, surviving and dead, asking: 'Was David Lammy not available? I'd besides instrumentality the corpse of Bernie Grant.'

Mr Gwynne adds: 'Or Desmond Swayne? Justin Trudeau??'

At the time, some Tory MP Swayne and the Canadian premier curate were engulfed successful racism rows aft photos of them with them faces blackened successful racist caricatures had emerged successful 2 abstracted incidents.

Bishop Desmond Jadoo, a salient achromatic campaigner and manager of the Windrush National Organisation, said: 'It's astonishing erstwhile a achromatic idiosyncratic rises to prominence, they person to enactment up with these outrageous comments.

'These comments person radical connotations that person nary spot successful our society. Diane Abbott is simply a way blazer, and due to the fact that she became the archetypal achromatic idiosyncratic to basal astatine PMQs, we present person a achromatic pistillate – Kemi Badenoch – astatine PMQs. If a Minister has these kinds of views, past they should instrumentality stock. There is nary specified spot successful our nine for specified views.'

Angela Rayner was besides mocked by the group, peculiarly by Mr Gwynne.

In March 2021, when, the Deputy Labour person faced disapproval for claiming £249 Apple wireless headphones connected Parliamentary expenses, Mr Gwynne reposted a tweet by a alleged parody relationship going by the sanction Tammy Pax MP.

The tweet read: 'I don't spot what the occupation is. It's virtually intolerable to springiness a blow*** portion wear-ing wired headphones. Anyone with a akin inheritance to Angela would recognize this.'

Another outrageous speech came aft a councillor mentions a constituent called 'Nick' who asked for much rhythm lanes and comments: 'That Nick is thing else.'

Mr Gwynne, who represents the Gorton and Denton constituency, replies: 'I had affirmative visions of him getting mown down by an Elsa Waste HGV portion he's cycling to the Fallowfield Loop [cycle lane]. We couldn't beryllium that lucky!'

The MP besides mocked a elder enactment fig successful Tameside called Colin Bailey, 61, the vice-chair of Audenshaw Labour branch.

In January 2019, appearing to notation a section enactment victory, Mr Gwynne asked: 'How did Colin C*mface instrumentality it?' He added later: 'Can we station the Colin C*mface Tory supporting tweets now?'

A shocked Mr Bailey – who has campaigned for Mr Gwynne successful the past – told the MoS yesterday: 'I americium aggravated astir this, if this is directed astatine me. Andrew ne'er said thing similar this before.'

Nigel Huddleston MP, co-chairman of the Conservative Party, said: 'These comments are sickening. It is shameful that a Labour Minister thinks it is due to privation for the decease of 1 of his ain constituents - particularly arsenic his authorities has cruelly taken distant Winter Fuel Payments and near susceptible pensioners to freeze, and conscionable goes to amusement however retired of interaction Labour are.'

And David Sedgwick, the councillor who posted a photograph of the missive from the pensioner astir the bins, said of Mr Gwynne past night: 'His comments were wholly not acceptable'.

Mr Gwynne has been successful authorities since 1996, erstwhile helium was elected arsenic England's youngest councillor astatine the property of 21.

He became an MP successful 2005, and aft past year's General Election was appointed Minister for Public Health and Prevention. He was antecedently Shadow Minister for Public Health and for Social Care.

At the clip helium made the insulting comments astir the pensioners successful May 2021, Mr Gwynne was championing pistillate pensioners successful public, arsenic vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary radical for authorities pension inequality.

Two months earlier, helium took to societal media to accidental that the WASPI women who were calved successful the 1950s and deed by changes successful the pension property 'have faced injustice aft injustice arsenic the Government person sat with their fingers successful their ears. No much 'computer says no' from Ministers, we request enactment now.'

A Labour spokesperson said: 'Andrew Gwynne has been administratively suspended arsenic a subordinate of the Labour Party. We are investigating comments made successful this WhatsApp radical successful enactment with the Labour Party's rules and procedures. Swift enactment volition beryllium taken if individuals are recovered to person breached the precocious standards expected of them arsenic Labour Party members.'