Education Minister Jason Clare has admitted the meme Labor posted on social media about Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife was “stupid” and “wrong” after the prime minister ordered it to be taken down.

The Victorian ALP launched a public attack this week on the opposition leader and his wife Kirilly by posting on Facebook a photo of the couple clipped from a newspaper story, with the caption “Justifying dating your new partner to your friends who don’t like him”. The photo of the couple prominently displayed the quote “he is not a monster”.