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The chairman of the Conservative party has claimed that a rival MP is "treating people like fools" by claiming his Twitter account was hacked into.
Eric Pickles has written to David Wright, a government whip, about the row over his Twitter feed.
Yesterday a comment appeared on Wright's feed responding to a Conservative advertising campaign targeted at people who have never voted Tory before.
"Because you can put lipstick on a scum-sucking pig, but it's still a scum-sucking pig. And cos they would ruin Britain," was the comment on Wright's Twitter feed.
Wright, MP for Telford, told BBC Radio Shropshire that he had not written "scum-sucking" and claimed "somebody, a third party has gone into my account and made it more offensive".
In his letter Pickles posed a series of questions to Wright and set out why his version of events is "not credible".
"You have used similar language in the past on Twitter, including describing David Cameron as a 'horrible opportunistic scumbag'," he wrote.
"Immediately after the tweet you posted again to say that you 'must've hit a nerve,' and then again that Conservatives 'do get riled very easily.'
"You then decided to apologise for the tweet.
"Only after all of this did you then claim that your Twitter account had been 'tinkered' with."
Pickles asked who hacked into the account and how they did it.
Wright has said his staff have contacted Twitter's US administrators to find out about the alleged hacking.
"This is not the first time I have been the victim of a cyber attack, two years ago a fake website was set up purporting to be me and we had to have it taken down and my laptop was stolen before Christmas from the House of Commons," he said.
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