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Sir Keir Starmer fired Andrew Gwynne, Minister of Health, after offensive comments divided into the WhatsApp group came to light.
The Prime Minister released Gwynne, an ally of the former Labor leader on the left of Jeremy Corbyn, on Saturday night as soon as he became aware of the comment, said Starmer’s spokesman.
Gwynne, Junior Minister of Public Health and MP for Gorton and Denton, said he deeply regretted his “poorly wrong comments” discovered by mail on Sunday and apologized for any offense.
In the paper, they reported on the various messages sent by Gwynne, including those in which he said he hoped a pensioner who did not vote would die before the following elections.
He also discovered anti -Semitic than derogatory comments about work colleagues and ‘jokes’ about being a truck that was a “basket”. Gwynne did not immediately respond to the request for further comments.
The Government spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is determined to support high public behavior standards and run the Government in the service of working people. It will not hesitate to take measures against any minister who does not fulfill these standards, as in this case.”
The work spokesman said: “We are investigating comments at this WhatsApp group in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Labor Party. A quick action will be taken if it is determined that individuals have violated the high standards expected as members of the Labor Party.”
Gwynne also lost a fun whip at the Municipality House.
For Starmer, who struggles to Galvantize his government, it was an undesirable political blow. Gwynne’s comments were taken away by conservatives as proof that the work was contemptuous from a pensioner.
In 2018, it was revealed that Gwynne was in a Facebook group where anti -Semitic messages were divided.
At the time he replied: “I was added to this Facebook group without my knowledge or permission. I do not support posts and distract anti -Semitism. “
Nigel Huddleston, MP, Tory Copresc, suggested that Gwynne’s comments confirmed that the Labor “is” contempt for pensioners “.
The Starmer government withdrew a winter fuel payment of 10 million pensioners last year.
