Michael Gove slammed on Twitter for calling Mrs Brown’s Boys ‘pure genius’

Michael Gove has caused a Twitter storm by expressing his love for the sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys.

The much derided but extremely popular BBC show can apparently count on the Conservative MP for its support.

On Monday night, he tweeted: “Mrs Brown’s Boys #puregenius”.

Gove backs Brown (Picture: Twitter)

The tweet caught his 15,000 followers off-guard, given that it landed in the middle of the Conservative Party conference.

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The former education and justice secretary, who campaigned for Brexit before launching a failed bid to be Tory leader and prime minister, drew the ire of Twitter for his comment.

Twitter wasn’t laughing (Picture: Twitter)

“Didn’t think my opinion of @michaelgove could sink any lower. But there you go,” tweeted Graham Love.

Mrs Brown is played by Brendan O’Carroll (Picture: Rex)

Twitter user David Gibson went further.

“This is the single worst tweet this site has ever seen,” he posted.

Mr Gove angered some Twitter users (Picture: Twitter)

Rick Burin advised Mr Gove: “Just say you’ve been hacked.”

Another Twitter user even superimposed Mr Gove’s face into a picture of the show’s main character Agnes Brown’s face.

How Mr Gove would look as Agnes Brown (Picture: @ed_son/Twitter)

The Surrey Heath MP’s previous tweet had been about the Tory conference.

He tweeted: “Theresa May’s speech today quite superb”.

Many Twitter users said that Mr Gove’s fandom of Mrs Brown’s Boys, created by and starring Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll, was worse than anything he had said during the Brexit campaign.

Some advice for Mr Gove over Mrs Brown (Picture: Twitter)

Ironically, Britain’s impending exit from the EU has led to delays in the development of Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie 2.

The original feature-length spin-off of the TV show took in £20 million at the worldwide box office when it was released in 2014, but the planned sequel has been thrown into doubt because of the drop in the value of the pound, O’Carroll told The Sun in August.

(Main picture: Rex)