She tweeted: “The instincts of most other fathers in the country was to look after their partner and children at home. 'Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters': Probe is launched into hastily deleted UK Civil Service tweet after Boris Johnson gives press briefing about Dominic Cummings ‘Truth twisters’: rogue civil service tweet causes storm in UK. Nor did he elaborate on another of yesterday’s announcements by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who revealed that the U.K. would be following France in providing £50 bicycle repair vouchers to citizens. “An unauthorised tweet was posted on a government channel this evening,” said the U.K. government’s “The post has been removed and we are investigating the matter,” continued the account, which was met with anger, re-postings of the “unauthorised tweet” and mockery. 29.0k members in the CoronavirusUK community. Can you imagine having to work with these truth-twisters?" Can you imagine having to work with these truth-twisters?" The official Twitter account for the UK Civil Service has accused the Government of being “arrogant and offensive” and “truth twisters”. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?' I'm also an historian – my most recent books include "Roads Were Not Built for Cars" and "Bike Boom", bothI was Press Gazette's Transport Journalist of the Year, 2018. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?”The tweet was up for approximately 12 minutes before it was removed, and was retweeted more than 32,000 times.The Government confirmed an investigation has been launched into who posted the “unauthorised tweet”.Author JK Rowling responded: “When you find out who it was, let us know. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?”The tweet was up for approximately 12 minutes before it was removed, and was retweeted more than 32,000 times.The Government confirmed an investigation has been launched into who posted the “unauthorised tweet”.Author JK Rowling responded: “When you find out who it was, let us know. He must show Mr Cummings the door without delay.“Millions were watching for answers and they got nothing. Spreading news, advice and media following the UK’s spread of the virus. A tweet sent from the official UK Civil Service account has said: 'Arrogant and offensive. I want to give them a year’s salary.”Although the message does not name any individuals, it appears to reference Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s defence of top aide, Dominic Cummings, at today’s conference.Responding to claims Mr Cummings had travelled 260 miles to County Durham during the peak of the lockdown, Mr Johnson said he had “acted responsibly, legally and with integrity”.References to the daily conference are the top 10 trends on Twitter this evening, with opposition MPs also responding to the speech given by the Prime Minister.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: “This was a test of the Prime Minister and he has failed it.“It is an insult to sacrifices made by the British people that Boris Johnson has chosen to take no action against Dominic Cummings.“The public will be forgiven for thinking there is one rule for the Prime Minister’s closest adviser and another for the British people.“The Prime Minister’s actions have undermined confidence in his own public health message at this crucial time.“Millions were watching for answers and they got nothing. There was no caveat that this does not apply to Dominic Cummings.“By supporting Cummings at his press conference Boris Johnson displays a failure of leadership and undermines his own public health messages.”Labour MP Jess Phillips questioned the claims that Mr Cummings “followed the instincts of every father”.The instincts of most other fathers in the country was to look after their partner and children at home. But the @UKCivilService account said in the now-deleted post: “Arrogant and offensive. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The tweet was up for around 12 minutes before it … A tweet from the account read: "Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters? Regarding the Civil Service account's "truth twisters" tweet, the Cabinet Office has said: "An unauthorised tweet was posted on a government channel this … The official Twitter account for the UK Civil Service has accused the Government of being “arrogant and offensive” and “truth twisters”. )
In a now-deleted tweet, the account wrote after Sunday’s daily Downing Street press conference: “Arrogant and offensive.