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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Clea Skopeliti

Blackpool council leader criticises Tory minister’s ‘ignorant’ comments

 Heather Wheeler in 2018.
Heather Wheeler in 2018. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

A Tory minister has been forced to apologise for describing Birmingham and Blackpool as “godawful”.

Speaking at the launch of the government’s new digital strategy on Thursday, Heather Wheeler, a junior minister in the Cabinet Office, was reported to have said: “I was just at a conference in Blackpool or Birmingham or somewhere godawful.”

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