Keir Starmer, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister, has dismissed Andrew Gwynne, his Health Minister, following the revelation of offensive WhatsApp messages. The messages, shared in a private group, included inappropriate jokes about a constituent being hit by a truck and the death of an elderly woman. Gwynne has apologized for his conduct and accepted the Labour Party's decision to suspend him.
United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer has sacked his health minister over inappropriate WhatsApp comments including a joke about a constituent being "mown down" by a truck and an elderly lady croaking it after asking about her bins. Andrew Gwynne has apologised for his behaviour and the "badly misjudged" comments. He lost his ministerial gig and was suspended from the Labour Party, as soon as Starmer learned of the saga.
" 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. He made antisemitic slights and joked about a constituent being "mown down" by a truck, the newspaper said.
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