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.”

Enough! I can’t stand it anymore! 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.Competitors are NOT taking part, Alex, in the fencin, rowin, boxin, kayakin, weightliftin & swimmin

— Lord Digby Jones (@Digbylj) July 30, 2021

Lord Digby Jones

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