Things are looking worse for the now former health minister Andrew Gywnne. His leaked WhatApp messages have now been recorded by the police as a non-crime hate incident. Some of the texts included antisemitic slights and a joke about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck, as well as sexist comments about Rayner. A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said:
“We have received a small number of complaints relating to publicised messages allegedly from a WhatsApp group. A non-crime hate incident has been recorded and we are in contact with our Parliamentary liaison as part of our initial enquiries.”
A case for the Free Speech Union?
UPDATE: Free Speech Union General Secretary Toby Young (The Lord Young of Acton) tells Guido: “Oh, the irony. Yvette Cooper may regret urging the police to record even more NCHIs — an average of 65 a day in England and Wales alone isn’t enough, apparently. I doubt Andrew Gwynne is the only senior Labour politician who’s made ‘inappropriate’ jokes on WhatsApp. I seem to recall her husband once dressed up as a Nazi. Shouldn’t that be an NCHI?”
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”