Pandemic of foot-in-mouth disease GAFFES

IF Gordon Brown can take any consolation from his disastrous encounter with Gillian Duffy, it is that he is not the first politician to be caught out by an "open mic". In 1993, believing that his microphone had been switched off at the end of an interview with ITN's Michael Brunson, J...

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Published inDaily telegraph (London, England : 1969)
Main Author Singh, Anita
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Daily Telegraph 29.04.2010
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Blair, Tony
Brown, Gordon
Bush, George W
Duffy, Gillian
Major, John
Pandemics
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Summary:IF Gordon Brown can take any consolation from his disastrous encounter with Gillian Duffy, it is that he is not the first politician to be caught out by an "open mic". In 1993, believing that his microphone had been switched off at the end of an interview with ITN's Michael Brunson, John Major described three Eurosceptic Cabinet members as "bastards". Tony Blair and George W Bush were equally unaware they were on air when they met at the G8 conference in St Petersburg in 2006 and the US president greeted him with "Yo, Blair!".
ISSN:0307-1235