The leader of Tameside MBC survived a vote of no confidence at an extraordinary council meeting held yesterday. Eleanor Wills ...

Angela Rayner has hit out at fellow Tameside MP Andrew Gwynne over the 'disgusting' WhatsApp group he was involved in. The Deputy Prime Minister accused her long-time Labour colleague of 'allowing ...

Ged Cooney, who stood down as Tameside Council boss in October, said he had been suspended because he "reported the group" and "officers of the Labour Party who failed to act on that report".

The publication of messages from the group by the Daily Mail forced the resignation of Tameside MP Andrew Gwynne as public health minister. His wife Allison Gwynne is among the suspended councillors ...

Burnley MP Oliver Ryan was then suspended on Monday, saying earlier that he had made comments "which I deeply regret". It is understood that the suspensions – from Tameside and Stockport ...

Burnley MP Ryan, 29, said he was a member of the WhatsApp group between 2019 and early 2022, when he was a councillor on Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. He was elected as an MP in July last ...

Tameside's political landscape has been rocked by scandal and in-party squabbles this week. But it's nothing new. With such a strong Labour majority in the borough, the biggest threat to the ...

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Mr Gwynne apologised for his 'badly misjudged comments', as did former Tameside councillor and Burnley MP Oliver Ryan, also suspended. Mr Gwynne's sacking was followed by the resignations of Denton ...