Nicola Sturgeon was forced into an embarrassing u-turn after she tweeted a false fact about
The First Minister posted that was the UK's first ethnic minority leader but this was proven to be untrue meaning that she deleted her tweet.
Taking to Twitter shortly after the former chancellor was declared as Liz Truss's replacement, Ms Sturgeon wrote: "Congratulations to Rishi Sunak - I wish him well and, notwithstanding our political differences, will do my best to build a constructive working relationship with him in the interests of those we serve.
"That he becomes the first British Asian - indeed the first from any minority ethnic background - to become PM is a genuinely significant moment. It certainly makes this a special ."
But she was blasted by journalist Benjamin Cohen who told her that she had been mistaken, as Benjamin Disraeli was in fact the first ethnic minority PM.
He wrote: "Sorry Nicola but Benjamin Disraeli was a Jew. Jews are an ethnic minority too. He was baptised as a Christian but this doesn’t wipe out his ethnic heritage.
"It’s certainly the case that Britain has its first PM of Asian/ Indian heritage but can politicians and media not describe him as the 'first ethnic minority PM'? This was Benjamin Disraeli in 1874. Jews count too. He was also the first ethnic minority Chancellor."
Ms Sturgeon accepted that she was in the wrong and instead amended her tweet to say: "That he becomes the first British Asian to become PM is a genuinely significant moment....
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