A Labour minister has been sacked over a string of offensive WhatsApp messages, including one where he said he hoped an elderly voter dies. Andrew Gwynne has also been suspended by the party after the comments were revealed by the Mail on Sunday.

The premier dismissed Andrew Gwynne as a junior health minister as soon as he became aware of the comments, the domestic PA news agency said. He has also been suspended from the Labour Party, with a report alleging that Gwynne made anti-Semitic, racist and sexist remarks.

In one message, Mr Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton allegedly joked that he hoped an elderly woman would die, after she asked about her bins

LONDON : A British junior minister was sacked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday and suspended from the governing Labour Party over WhatsApp messages which the minister said were “badly misjudged”.

Labour MP Andrew Gwynne expressed regret over anti-Semitic comments that led to his dismissal as junior health minister by PM Keir Starmer. This incident poses a fresh challenge for Starmer's leadership,

Labour’s approach to knife crime is “totemic” of its wider weaknesses on law and order, a scathing report has concluded. Policy Exchange warned that Sir Keir Starmer ’s party ignores enforcement in favour of “their comfort zone of prevention and rehabilitation”.

Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked and suspended from the party after a number of WhatsApp messages, including hopes for a pensioner's death and anti-Semitic comments were exposed. The Prime Minister stripped Gwynne of his role as Health Minister when the content of his messages came to light yesterday.