Heather Wheeler’s ‘godawful’ comment is damaging government’s levelling up agenda in town, says Lynn Williams
The leader of Blackpool council has criticised “ignorant and ill-advised” comments by a Tory minister, who was forced to apologise after describing the town as “godawful”.
Speaking at a 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.”
