Three Labour councillors have resigned after being caught up in a scandal over leaked WhatsApp chats. Health minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked after a newspaper revealed he sent a string of offensive and abusive WhatsApp messages.

Burnley MP Oliver Ryan has become the second MP to be suspended from the Labour parliamentary party over his membership of a WhatsApp group which contained offensive messages. Ryan was summoned to a meeting with Chief Whip Sir Alan Campbell, after the Mail on Sunday published the messages.

Labour has suspended a second MP after offensive Whatsapp messages sent in a group chat were revealed at the weekend.

Ryan was the second MP to apologise after making “unacceptable and deeply disappointing” comments in a WhatsApp group called 'Trigger Me Timbers', in which Ryan mocked another Labour MP over his sexuality. The group is now being investigated by Labour.

Labour MP has apologised for comments made in a WhatsApp chat, after Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister over messages he sent to the same group.Burnley MP Oliver Ryan said in a statement that comments he made in the group "were completely unacceptable" and he regretted "not speaking out at the time".

The Labour Party ignored repeated warnings about Andrew Gwynne’s “vile” WhatsApp comments months before they were made public, The Telegraph can reveal. A former Labour council leader said he complained about the MP’s messages to a party official several times in the last year, but his concerns were ignored.

The MP for Burnley said he "deeply regrets" comments he made in a WhatsApp group created by Andrew Gwynne - who was sacked as a health minister over the weekend.