Alex Scott, a British reporter who is covering the Olympics in Tokyo, has emphatically responded to a former trade minister who said the journalist “needs elocution lessons” and “spoils” the broadcast.

According to The Guardian, Lord Digby Jones took a jab at Scott when he went to Twitter on Friday, saying "enough! I can’t stand it any more!"

"Alex Scott spoils a good presentational job on the BBC Olympics Team with her very noticeable inability to pronounce her ‘g’s at the end of a word," Jones wrote. "Competitors are NOT taking part, Alex, in the fencin, rowin, boxin, kayakin, weightliftin & swimmin.”

Scott, who is also a former soccer player, responded shortly after seeing the tweet, saying she's proud to be from "a working class family in East London."

"Proud of the young girl who overcame obstacles, and proud of my accent!" the commentator said. "It’s me, it’s my journey, my grit."

The journalist also relayed a message to young people who may face similar ridicule.

"A quick one to any young kids who may not have a certain kind of privilege in life. Never allow judgments on your class, accent, or appearance hold you back," she wrote. "Use your history to write your story. Keep striving, keep shining & don’t change for anyone."

Scott demonstrated her resolve when she said the negative comment has given her "the energy to keep going."

"See you tomorrow.. live on BBC baby," the reporter said.

Others responded to Scott by expressing their own experience of being mocked for their accent.

Scott's supporters described people like Jones as misogynistic, racist and classist.

But some people encouraged Scott to never change her identity.

Some viewers suspect that the reporter may be embracing her accent more than ever after facing criticism. 

According to Sky News, Jones later issued another statement to defend himself.

"She met huge adversity, she met enormous challenges. She has come through it, she has captained the England women's football team," he said. "She's making a career in the media extremely successfully. It's got nothing to do with any of that, this is about not accent. This isn't about regional accents. It's about the fact that she is wrong. You do not pronounce the English language ending in a 'g' without the 'g.'"

The British businessman continued to dig a deeper hole when he suggested that Scott cannot be a role model.

 "I don't want her to [be] influencing, especially women, but certainly all young people to think that it's very fashionable to go around dropping your Gs," he said.

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