Labour minister sacked after leaked messages reveal he ‘wished pensioner would die’

A Labour MP who joked astir an aged pistillate dying successful a radical chat has been sacked and dismissed from the party.

Andrew Gwynne, MP for Gorton and Denton, besides posted racist remarks astir chap MP Diane Abbott and sexist remarks astir Angela Rayner.

In a WhatsApp radical called Trigger Me Timbers, helium joked that 1 constituent should beryllium ‘mowed down’ by a motortruck and helium besides made antisemitic remarks.

This radical chat is shared with much than a twelve Labour councillors, enactment officials and astatine slightest 1 different MP

He said helium besides hoped a 74-year-old pistillate ‘croaked it’ conscionable due to the fact that she asked a councillor who was successful the aforesaid radical chat astir her bins.

The afloat connection shared by Mr Gwynne successful the radical said: ‘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.’

Mr Gwynne was sacked by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer arsenic soon arsenic helium was made alert of the comments.

He posted an apology connected X and wrote: ‘I profoundly regret my severely misjudged comments and apologise for immoderate offence I’ve caused. I’ve served the Labour Party each my beingness and it was a immense honour to beryllium appointed a curate by Keir Starmer.

‘I wholly recognize the decisions the PM and the enactment person taken and, portion precise bittersweet to person been suspended, volition enactment them successful immoderate mode I can.’

‘The Prime Minister is determined to uphold precocious standards of behaviour successful nationalist bureau and pb a authorities successful the work of moving people,’ a Government spokesperson said.

‘He volition not hesitate to instrumentality enactment against immoderate curate who fails to conscionable these standards, arsenic helium has successful this case.’

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.’

The Tories said the posts showed a ‘rot’ successful the Labour Party.

‘There is simply a wide contempt for pensioners successful the Labour Party. This intelligibly goes beyond Andrew Gwynne and determination is simply a rot successful Labour that needs fixing,’ Tory enactment co-chairman Nigel Huddleston said.

‘Andrew Gwynne should not stay a subordinate of the Labour Party – they request to act.’

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