Tory MP apologises for calling Birmingham and Blackpool ‘godawful’

Heather Wheeler, a minister in the Cabinet Office, 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."