Civil Service Tweet Goes Viral: ‘Arrogant And Offensive. Can You Imagine Having To Work With These Truth Twisters?’

Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not provide more details on the £1 billion widening of the A66 at the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on May 24.

That could be one of the explanations for a snarky, career-ending, short-lived tweet sent out from the official UK Civil Service Twitter feed shortly after the end of the briefing.

The message—“Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?”—was removed within about 10 minutes of first appearing, but not before it had been “liked’ by more than 30,000 Twitter users.