The Mail on Sunday got hold of some messages Gwynne put in a private Whatsapp group. One of them was a suggested response to a 72-year-old constituent asking about bin collections:
“Dear resident, F*** your bins. I’m re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all-outs.'”
In another message he responded to someone’s name, which ended with ‘berg’: “He sounds too militaristic and too Jewish. Is he in Mossad?” Gwynne also spoke in liberal terms about Diane Abbott and Angela Rayner…
A government spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister is determined to uphold high standards of conduct in public office and lead a government in the service of working people. He will not hesitate to take action against any minister who fails to meet these standards, as he has in this case.” Gwynne says“I deeply regret my badly misjudged comments and apologise for any offense I’ve caused. I’ve served the Labour Party all my life and it was a huge honour to be appointed a minister by Keir Starmer. I entirely understand the decisions the PM and the party have taken and, while very sad to have been suspended, will support them in any way I can.” He’s had his membership suspended too…
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It’s no secret that the Tories have been stumbling lately, with CCHQ grumbling over Kemi’s ‘come to Jesus’ all-staff meeting on Tuesday. But while the party’s had a few trips up recently, at least one shadow cabinet minister is on firmer footing. Guido can reveal that Robert Jenrick is in fact running in Westminster…
Since December, Robert’s taken up Strava, an app that helps athletes track and share their physical activity. Having ditched the Ozpemic route, he started off his evening jogs around Westminster at a leisurely 11 minutes per mile, but has since kicked it up a gear to 8/9 minutes a mile. On Sunday, he clocked a personal best, slogging out a half-marathon in 2 hours 14 minutes, looping South Bank, Hyde Park, and Westminster. No doubt he was sporting his ‘Hamas are terrorists’ hoodie for the occasion…
Last year, Guido exposed Starmer’s creation of an EU surrender unit, buried deep within the powerful Cabinet Office. A dedicated team of civil servants, handpicked to push Labour’s “reset” with Brussels, is working tirelessly to drag Britain back into the bloc. Now, Guido can reveal just how Labour Rejoin’s mission is costing the taxpayer…
A staggering 92 civil servants are feverishly working to forge closer ties with the EU—at an eye-watering salary cost of between £5,071,010 to £5,493,261. This includes: One Director General raking in £208,000, One Director pocketing £108,000 and Five Deputy Directors, each cashing in £80,000. For that you could:
Instead, taxpayers are footing a whopping bill for Starmer’s EU love affair. This is just the beginning of the cost of Starmer’s Brexit betrayal…
Guido has been reporting for some time on the concerted efforts of the pro-leasehold blob to lobby against Labour’s promised leasehold reforms. Which have received a go-slow…
As lawfare creeps further into the UK political landscape some faces familiar to the PM have entered the leasehold ring. Last week the High Court allowed a judicial review from John Lyon’s Charity to go ahead against the Leasehold and Freehold Act 2024 – Gove’s reforms which Labour in the King’s Speech promised to “quickly” commence. The JR seeks to weaponise the ECHR to declare leasehold reform incompatible with the right to property under the Human Rights Act. The two lawyers leading the efforts are close friends of Keir…
Edward Fitzgerald KC is one of them and is a founding head of Doughty Street Chambers. Starmer’s old chambers…
Starmer has even written a book with Fitzgerald and the lawyer was photographed clapping the PM into Downing Street on the day he was elected. Tom Baldwin’s hagiography of Starmer describes Edward as “the leading counsel in many of Starmer’s early cases and therefore… an expert character witness.” Reports even suggested Fitzgerald could be Attorney General. In the end another of Starmer’s legal chums (who has also acted with Fitzgerald) was picked…
Human rights solicitor Mark Stephens is also acting against the reforms. He and Starmer have acted together on numerous cases including the famous McLibel – Stephens is always available to hacks for a fawning quote about the PM. Stephens even campaigned for Starmer during the Labour leadership election. Just like Philippe Sands…
Patrick Maguire writes in the Times today that the “PM values his friends outside politics more than anything Westminster has to offer.” They are mostly made up of this set of lawyers…
When asked about leasehold delays by the BBC recently Starmer shot back that it’s “a complicated bit of law” and “there is no snap answer.” Rest assured it is the rule of lawyers now…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”