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U.K. campaign gaffe: Prime minister calls voter a bigot (AP)

April 28th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, wearing a Sky News microphone, speaks to local resident Gillian Duffy, 65, while campaigning for Britain's May 6 General Election in Rochdale, England, Wednesday April 28, 2010. Brown was caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to - apparently Duffy - as a 'bigoted woman'. The comments were made as he got into his car, not realising that he had the microphone pinned to his jacket. He told an aide: 'That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous...' Asked what she had said, he replied: 'Everything, she was just a bigoted woman.'(AP Photo< Lewis Whyld-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - Britain’s bedraggled Prime Minister Gordon Brown waltzed into a political train wreck Wednesday after forgetting to turn off his microphone. He described a loyal Labour voter as a bigot for asking about immigration, blamed advisers for a “disaster” ahead of next week’s election, then rushed back to the voter’s house to beg her forgiveness.


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