Two Labour MPs have now been suspended from the party after “offensive” messages from a WhatsApp group they were members of were leaked.

The Labour MPs who posted offensive comments in a controversial WhatsApp group should quit parliament, according to a Labour MP. Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan have both been suspended by the party after the messages were revealed by the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.

Another Labour MP who was part of a Whatsapp group where a minister made racist and sexist remarks about party colleagues has been named. Andrew Gwynne, MP for Gorton and Denton, has been sacked and dismissed from the party after he joked in the group chat about an elderly constituent dying.