Luvvies forced to say sorry for slur on Tories

FORMER Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins last night deleted three tweets relating to the fake story, and praised Michael Gove.

On Monday Miss Perkins tweeted: ‘Shameful b******s, denying what is obvious – animal sentience. Let’s not take this one lying down. #resist’

She included a link to an article on the i newspaper’s website entitled: ‘Moment MPs voted that “animals cannot feel pain or emotions”.’

Miss Perkins posted a link to the theyworkforyou.com website, writing: ‘Here you can see how your MP voted. Am truly disgusted by this.’

She also tweeted a link to an online petition claiming MPs had ‘put animals rights at risk by voting that no animals have feelings or the ability to experience pain’.

After the Daily Mail contacted her publicist yesterday, the three tweets were removed. She then tweeted: ‘Good to see @michaelgove promising “no gap” in principle of #animalsentience after Brexit.’

After retweeting links to the story, TV host Ben Fogle said on Thursday that he had ‘deleted the misleading Deleted tweets: Sue Perkins threads’ and was ‘happy to apologise’. Yesterday he tweeted: ‘I have apologised. It would be interesting to turn the focus on the national newspapers who printed the story.’

Countdown’s Rachel Riley posted a link to a web article saying the Government had decided to ‘exclude the status of animals as sentient beings’. She wrote: ‘The possible reasons why Tory MPs would have voted [for this] baffle and worry me.’ She did not respond to requests for comment.