Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision, the Labour Party also decided to expel Andrew Gwynne from the party.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday dismissed the head of the ministry Health, Andrew Gwynne, after they met antisemitic messages y against the people and other politicians, which he had sent via WhatsApp to various groups.
“The Prime Minister is determined to maintain high standards of conduct and lead A government of service and hard-working people"He will not hesitate to take action against any minister who does not meet these criteria, which is what happened in this case," said a spokesman for his office.
At par, The Labour Party decided to expel him from the party and launched an investigation, “in accordance with internal regulations and procedures.”
Gwynne, for his part, regretted what happened, but assured that it is “misunderstood comments”“I have always served the Labour Party and it has been a great honour to be Keir Starmer’s minister. I fully understand the decision, but it is with great regret that I am taking it,” he said.
The controversial conversations were broadcast in the last few hours by the British media Daily Mail and they expose comments by the former official against the Jewish people, jokes about British neighbors and even racist remarks against other Party colleagues.
In one of the chats, members refer to a Labour meeting and a councillor asks if the American psychologist Marshall Rosenberg had been invited.
“Will Marshall Rosenberg be there too?” one of them asked, to which Gwynne jokingly replied: “No, it sounds too militaristic and too Jewish. Is he in the Mossad?”
Also, in another fragment of the dialogue, he wrote: “George the Giraffe [a cartoon] says not to be so nasty to Jews.”
Another conversation includes a joke about a 72-year-old neighbor. Stockport who had sent a request to his councillor.
“Dear Mr. Sedgwick, While I am in no way responsible for your re-election, I thought it would be an appropriate time to contact you regarding trash collection.”, wrote the old woman. The text was sent to a group by Sedgwick himself, to which the former Minister replied in an ironic tone: “Dear neighbor, fuck your trash cans. I was re-elected and without your vote, I can’t do anything.”.
In the same tone, he attacked another citizen who asked the government for more cycle paths. “I had a rosy vision of him being hit by an Elsa Waste truck, whilst cycling towards Fallowfield Loop! We couldn’t be that lucky!”, sent the group.
Diane Abbot He was also a victim of Gwynne after he replaced Jeremy Corbyn and managed to become The first African-American MP to sit on the Prime Minister's Questions platform, in October 2019.
“Who’s ready for Diane’s questions to the PM?” one of the chat members wrote in the run-up to the meeting, to which Gwynne replied: “Yep, because “Apparently it’s Black History Month.”
“Was David Lammy not available? He would also accept Bernie Grant’s body,” the conversation continued, referring to other African-American Labour MPs, some of whom have died.
Gwynne retorted "Or Desmond Swayne? “Justin Trudeau?”, in an implicit reference to the racism controversy that arose around photos of him with offensive caricatures.
It seems that the guy is not a good person; he is an undesirable racist.