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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.

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.

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.

A second 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".