An investigation has been launched after a tweet on the official UK Civil Service account hit out at “truth twisters”.
The account shared the blunt message after the Downing Street press briefing on Sunday and was shared thousands of times before being deleted around 12 minutes later.
The post said: "Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?"
The tweet, which was liked more than 30,000 times before being removed, came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to defend his chief adviser Dominic Cummings over allegations he breached lockdown rules by travelling to Durham.
The tweet was soon deleted and it is not clear if the account had been hacked or if the tweet had been posted from somebody working there.
BBC Newsnight policy editor Lewis Goodall retweeted the post and said: "This has just been tweeted from the UK Civil Service account.
"This is the craziest political weekend for a long time."
A UK Government spokesman told the Standard: “An unauthorised tweet was posted on a Government channel this evening.
“The post has been removed and we are investigating the matter.”
