Brown campaign suffers blow in ‘bigot’ blunder

GORDON Brown’s campaign suffered a self-inflicted blow yesterday when he was forced to apologise publicly and in person after branding a pensioner “bigoted”.

Brown went to 65-year-old Gillian Duffy’s home in Rochdale to offer his personal apology.

He emerged after almost 45 minutes to declare himself a “penitent sinner” who was “mortified” at what he had done.