LABOUR MPs called on David Cameron yesterday to sack a minister who shared a Tweet labelling their rival party “full of queers.”

Business Minister Matthew Hancock issued a panicked apology after reposting the offensive message, insisting it was “a total accident.”

The message Mr Hancock shared said: “The party run by young Ed, is quietly going quite dead, bereft of ideas, quite full of queers, no wonder the faithful have fled.”

The Tory MP for West Suffolk said afterwards that “I wholeheartedly disagree with the offensive comment in the tweet and am incredibly sorry for any offence caused.”

But Labour MP Chris Bryant called the message “vile” and said the Prime Minister should “sack him now.”

Mr Hancock had hurriedly deleted the offensive message as he was bombarded by shocked followers. 

The Politwoops website archives all tweets deleted by gaffe-prone MPs however. 

And the Political Scrap website pointed out Mr Hancock would have been prompted by the Twitter application to “accidentally” approve the message not once — but twice. 

Millionaire Tory donor Michael Ashcroft rushed to the defence of the right-wing darling. 

“It happens on twitter! Your response ASAP to your credit,” he wrote. 

The Twitter user who posted the original message was furious Mr Hancock apologised however, claiming “it wasn’t offensive.”

Mr Hancock, who voted for equal marriage, was one of dozens of MPs to use national poetry day to attack opposition parties online.