Surprise! Campbell leads the chorus of sour Lefties

LEFT-WING celebrities and Labour MPs used social media last night to snipe about the PM’s baby announcement.

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell helped fuel Twitter outrage by suggesting the announcement was timed to overshadow a political row at the Home Office.

He tweeted: ‘Sorry but Boris Johnson getting another woman pregnant hardly qualifies as news.’ In his diatribe, he added: ‘Poor kid is what I think.’

He was joined by a string of Labour MPs, who accused Downing Street of using the announcement of the Prime Minister’s wedding and new arrival to ‘bury bad news’.

Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols posted: ‘Congratulations to the happy couple notwithstanding, it’s truly remarkable that the announcement JUST HAPPENED to be on the day of the unprecedented resignation of top Home Office official Sir Philip Rutnam who will be taking a case of constructive dismissal against the Government.’

Mr Campbell echoed the theory, tweeting: ‘Any journalist or any media outlet that thinks a Boris Johnson baby is a bigger story than Rutnam/Patel is not actually a journalist and does not deserve to be called a media outlet.’

Death Of Stalin writer and actor David Schneider told his 443,000 followers: ‘Carrie Symonds will always remember that romantic moment when Boris Johnson went down on one knee and said, “Carrie, will you do me the honour of keeping our vicious campaign against Sir Philip Rutnam off the front pages?”’

SNP MP John Nicolson added: ‘Happy news about Boris Johnson’s latest child. And a remarkably timed announcement – conveniently knocking the Priti Patel bullying story down the running order.’

Labour MP for Vauxhall, Florence Eshalomi, added: ‘Very convenient for this news to be announced today.’

And BBC Match of the Day star Gary Lineker remarked: ‘Liverpool are getting a spanking and someone admits to sleeping with Boris Johnson. Bloody hell, these leap year days are weird.’ Comic David Baddiel tweeted: ‘Keen to see the moment the first TV interviewer says, “Congratulations! So how many [children] is that now?” ’

And impressionist Rory Bremner made a reference to Brexit by joking: ‘Well, THAT withdrawal agreement didn’t work.’

However, Michael Gove’s wife, newspaper columnist Sarah Vine, appealed to Twitter users not to bully Miss Symonds, writing: ‘Let’s be kind to the pregnant lady, shall we?’