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Westminster’s WhatsApp addiction must end
Summary
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72% Informative
Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan have been sacked over WhatsApp messages.
The health minister and Labour MP Oliver Ryan sent messages to a group from 2019 to 2022.
The default setting for MPs and ministers is to set their messages to disappear within days of being sent.
No future inquiry will uncover messages in a similar manner because they are all being destroyed.
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68
Informative language
63
Neutral language
49
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
56
Offensive language
possibly offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
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not detected
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short-lived
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