Katy Balls' Sunday Roundup - 09/02/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Health Minister Andrew Gwynne is sacked by Starmer after sending offensive WhatsApp messages. Angela Rayner denies being aggressive in a meeting with Grenfell survivors, and admits doubt around Labour’s 1.5m new homes pledge. Alex Burghart won’t completely rule out a future Conservative-Reform pact. And Israeli President Isaac Herzog comments on Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza.
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Katie Balls and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:17.9 | Health Minister Andrew Grin has been sacked after he was found to have sent offensive messages |
| 0:22.5 | in a WhatsApp group with other Labour figures. Gwyn had joked about hoping a constituent |
| 0:28.0 | would soon be dead and made sexist and racist comments about Angela Rainer and Diane Abbott. |
| 0:33.6 | On Sky News, Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook denounced Gwynne's comments and told Trevor Phillips that an investigation was taking place into other members of the WhatsApp group. |
| 0:43.4 | Good morning. |
| 0:44.0 | Good morning, Trevor. |
| 0:45.3 | Andrew Gwyn has been dismissed from his ministerial job, suspended from the Labour Party, because of WhatsApp messages that he appears to admit were anti-Semitic, racist, sexist and just |
| 0:56.3 | in terribly bad taste. Will other Labour MPs and councils on that WhatsApp group be suspended? |
| 1:05.8 | I haven't seen the details of the specific WhatsApp conversations in question, but the comments |
| 1:10.5 | that Andrew |
| 1:10.9 | Grimm made, let's be clear, are completely unacceptable. And the Prime Minister has been very clear |
| 1:16.3 | from day one of this Labour government that he is determined to uphold the highest standards |
| 1:21.7 | of public office, determined to be a government that's in the service of working people, and he's |
| 1:25.9 | acted decisively to dismiss Andrew Grimm for that reason. Yes, he's acted decisively, but we know that there is at least |
| 1:32.8 | one other Labour MP and there are other Labour councillors in that group. Will they be suspended? |
| 1:40.5 | Well, the Labour Party, as you know, Trevor, have administered Andrew Gwynn. |
| 1:45.0 | He's lost the Labour whip. |
| 1:46.0 | There's an investigation taking place about that, what's that conversation? |
| 1:49.0 | But we're very clear that the type of language used is completely unacceptable. |
| 1:53.0 | But we know that there is at least another Labour MP. |
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