Premiership of Gordon Brown do so. The election campaign saw the UK's first televised debates between the leaders of the three main parties. While Cameron and Clegg were generally perceived to have performed well in these, Brown was perceived to have done less well. Brown also attracted criticism from the media after privately describing a 65-year-old pensioner as a "bigoted woman" after she stated that entitled people were not receiving benefits because non-entitled people are receiving them. She also expressed her displeasure at immigration from Eastern Europe. His remarkssaid on 28 April whilst in a car with his staffwere picked up by a Sky
2012 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election Farnell and Allen Brett. It also produced Rochdale's youngest ever councillor in Liam O'Rourke. These results also led to the resignation of local Liberal Democrat leader Wera Hobhouse. After the election, the composition of the council was: "In 2008 Peter Evans stood in this ward as a Liberal Democrat." "In 2008, Mohammad Sharif stood in this ward for the Liberal Democrats." "Maureen Rowbothan stood for the ward in 2008 as a Labour candidate." "Jean Ashworth stood for the ward in 2008 as a Liberal Democrat." 2012 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election The 2012 Rochdale Council election took place on 3