07/05/2013 00:00
...for Gillian Duffy, the 67-year-old Rochdale pensioner, a life-long Labour supporter, who went out to buy a loaf of bread but inadvertently found herself at the centre of the biggest mediafest of the 2010 General Election after she put a few questions to Gordon Brown who was passing by. His subsequent gaffe of calling her a bigot over an open microphone led to him knocking on her door to apologise and to a siege of her home by a media pack trying to get her exclusive story. Throughout an experience alien to her in every way she kept her dignity and independence.
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