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An international trade minister was mocked today for moaning about a ‘German doner kebab’ shop - even though that’s where they were invented.

Tory Greg Hands was branded “ignorant” after posting a photo of the chain with the words: “How long before we have German fish & chips?”

Twitter users swiftly pointed out the doner kebab was invented by a Turkish immigrant, Kadir Nurman, who set up a stall in West Berlin in 1972.

Fish and chips have also been credited with Jewish immigrant Joseph Malin opening an East London shop in 1860.

One Twitter user wrote: “Want to read back your job title Greg and maybe rethink this tweet?” Author Ned Boulting added: “Are you stupid?”

Mr Hands - whose job is to secure a good trade deal after Brexit - refused to apologise and blamed the row on “literally thousands of lefties seeking a wider putative meaning”.

(Image: TMS)

At the time of writing, Mr Handss original tweet had attracted more than 1,000 replies.

Here are some of them,