A Tory sports minister has been mocked after she appeared to forget that Glasgow was the last UK city to host the Commonwealth games.
Nadine Dorries, a right-wing MP and Boris Johnson loyalist, was in Birmingham this morning to promote the opening of the 2022 sporting event which is being hosted in the West Midlands.
The UK Secretary of State for Sport told BBC News: "We've not had a sense of sporting occasion like this since the 2012 Olympics".
The 2014 Commonwealth Games was the largest sporting event ever held in Scotland and saw more than 7,000 athletes travel to Glasgow from 71 nations.
It saw sporting icons like Usain Bolt compete at a specially-constructed athletics track at Hampden Park.
Dorries said: "I arrived last night and the city is buzzing today. It's fantastic to see.
"I don't think we've had a sense of occasion, particularly a sense of sporting occasion, like this since the 2012 Olympics. It's amazing for Birmingham, and for the West Midlands, and for sport itself.
"It's a great day and it's exciting."
But her apparent attempt at airbrushing Glasgow out of Commonwealth Games history did not go down well with everyone.
And others pointed out the same mistake had been repeated on other UK news channels.
Trevor Andrews tweeted: "Oh dear Nadine, seems she forgot Scotland is part of the UK".
Bob White added: "Another politician who doesn’t do detail. Where have we seen that before?"
Tom Moffat commented: "Same error on C4 News last night. Did you not hear me shouting at the TV?"
And Ross Munro quipped: "Nads doing her little bit for Scottish independence".
The 2022 Commonwealth Games open today and will be hosted at 15 venues across the West Midlands.
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