Heather Wheeler made comments at technology event in London

A UK government minister has apologised after calling England’s second city and one of the country’s best-known seaside resorts as “godawful”.

Heather Wheeler referred to Birmingham and Blackpool during a launch of the government’s new digital strategy on Thursday. According to Chris Middleton, a technology journalist who was at the launch, the junior minister in the Cabinet Office said: “I was just at a conference in Blackpool or Birmingham or somewhere godawful.”

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