2010 United Kingdom general election debates can do something to change our country." The final round of the first ever televised leaders' debates, hosted by the BBC, was held in the Great Hall of Birmingham University on 29 April 2010. The background to the debate was overshadowed a day before by a remark made by Gordon Brown in private, while being driven away after canvassing in Rochdale, when he met retired council worker Gillian Duffy. In the remark, caught by a lapel microphone, Brown said that "...she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour". At the beginning of the
Gordon Brown (footballer, born 1929) at Nottingham City Hospital at the age of 81 on the morning of 15 August 2010. Gordon Brown (footballer, born 1929) Gordon Steele Brown (21 March 1929 – 15 August 2010) was an English footballer. Born in Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, Brown played junior football in Worksop before signing a professional contract with Nottingham Forest in December 1946. He joined York City in June 1950 after serving in the British Army in 1948 to 1949.<ref name="YORK CITY : 1946/47 – 2003/04"></ref> He was a member of the team which played in the FA Cup semi-final in 1955. He left the club