Browns gaffe may cost him premiership

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Browns gaffe may cost him premiership

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03 May,2010 12:24 am

Gillian Duffy, the lifelong Labour supporter called a bigot by Gordon Brown, has said that she was more offended by the way he referred to her as that woman. Mrs Duffy, who went out for a loaf of bread but ended up inflicting grave damage upon the Labour leaders campaign, said that she was now too disillusioned to vote for any party and would not return her postal ballot. The former council worker from Rochdale also refused to shake Mr Browns hand in front of the cameras when he made a 45-minute visit to her home to apologize, telling him: Im very sorry that this has happened but its you whos going to lose out, not me. Mrs Duffy, 65, shouted questions at Mr Brown when she walked past a campaign event in Rochdale on Wednesday. His aides ushered her over and she grilled him on the budget deficit, immigration, tax credits for pensioners and student loans. After the apparently affable encounter, Mr Brown forgot to remove the microphone attached to his lapel by a television crew and was recorded as he was driven away in a Jaguar saying: 'That was a disaster they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that?'Asked what she had said, Mr Brown added: 'Everything, she was just a bigoted woman. Said she used to be a Labour voter. I mean, its just ridiculous.'