People working in communications should know better than to publish anything including the word “illiteracy” without first triple-checking it for spelling errors. Everyone should know that the moment you mention it, the chances of you spelling something wrong rises dramatically.
Unfortunately, it’s a lesson someone at CCHQ Press Office has “leant” the hard way:

Or maybe they should just learn to log out of Twitter on a Saturday night.


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