On 28 April 2010, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown made one of the most infamous gaffes in the history of UK election campaigns, when the Labour leader described 66-year-old Gillian Duffy, a Rochdale local he had just met while campaigning, as a "bigoted woman" – forgetting that a microphone on his lapel was feeding his words back to all of the UK's major broadcasters. Produced here is the footage of Brown and Duffy's full exchange, the recording of Brown's unguarded remarks made in a car immediately after their conversation, and the prime minister's apology speech made outside Duffy's house later that afternoon.

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