Tory minister calls Birmingham and Blackpool ‘godawful’

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

, the junior minister in the Cabinet Office said: “I was just at a conference in Blackpool or…