A senior Conservative has said the messages sacked Labour minister Andrew Gwynne reportedly posted in a WhatsApp chat were “concerning". Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart says Andrew Gwynne’s suspension raises “serious questions” about whether he should remain an MP. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think there are serious questions about whether he should remain an MP and I say that because
00:06obviously there's some very derogatory messages about old people in his constituency but
00:10in some ways even more concerningly there was a remark there that one of his constituents was
00:15too Jewish. Now Keir Starmer claims that he has cleared anti-semitism out of his party
00:22but we are now seeing top level Labour MPs using this sort of language in a large forum on a
00:28WhatsApp group. Did anyone challenge that? Is action going to be taken against other people
00:34on that group? Was anybody else saying similar things? There are a lot of unanswered questions
00:38but this is the same old anti-semitic Labour party as far as we can see.