Matt Hancock, MP for West Suffolk and minister for further education, skills and lifelong learning, has entered into the spirit of National Poetry Day by retweeting an offensive poem.
Here’s the tweet in question:
@matthancockmp the party run by young Ed is quietly going quite dead bereft of ideas quite full of queers no wonder the faithful have fled
— In A Flap (@In_A_Flap) October 2, 2014
However, minutes later he unretweeted it, claiming it was an accident:
Previous RT was a total accident. I wholeheartedly disagree with offensive comment in the tweet & am incredibly sorry for any offence caused
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— Matt Hancock (@matthancockmp) October 2, 2014
To give credit to him – it’s nice to see someone own up to a mistake on the internet, instead of claiming they were “hacked”.
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