Nadine Doris accused dyslexia after being ridiculed for confusing her words in a video explaining her work as a culture secretary.
Boris Johnson’s key ally spoke of people who could “down the chain” – instead of downloading – movies online, and called the tennis courts “courts”.
Gary Lineker retweeted the video on TikTok to his 8.4 million followers, adding: “Our Minister of Sports.”
Another Twitter user mocked Ms Doris by posting: “There is a lot of history about this center on the Wimbledon field and it can be found through the downstream chain on the British Internet.”
The secretary of culture responded by arguing that her dyslexia meant that she found it “difficult” to find the right expression when she spoke.
Dyslexia is described by the NHS as a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing and spelling.
Another symptom is said that the sufferer “speaks wrong, abuses or mispronounces without realizing it.”
Ms Doris said: “I have dyslexia, which means that when I speak, I often put my words together and say things that sound like the words I am trying to say.
“Dyslexia affects people in different ways. For me, this affects my speech more than my writing, which is why I find solace in writing.
“I am just fine with that. I’ve been in politics for a long time and you’re getting thick. That’s why I haven’t talked much in public about how it affects me. But it was difficult for me to see commentators and the media making fun of me for something beyond my control. “
Footage posted online on Friday by Luke Evans, a Tory MP from Bosworth, shows Ms Doris explaining the work of her department for digital technology, culture, media and sport.
“We have a responsibility to ensure that you have a super-fast broadband connection in your home, which means you can go down the chain of your films,” she told Dr. Evans.
The secretary of culture said he wanted to “make the UK the safest internet in the world”.
And she said that her department is also “responsible for everything related to sports, making sure you have football pitches and that you have tennis courts in your communities where you can play and practice your sport.”
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