[srean]

Now that you ask, the name eludes me. Am I misremembering ? was he an MP who lost office? I certainly remember a flurry of news reports.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

PM Gordon Brown did call a female voter "bigoted" on a hot mic (1) - with some justification actually, as she did say some unpleasant anti-immigrant rhetoric. Mr Brown lost an election shortly after, but this incident was not in itself what brought him down.

1) https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/full-conversation-betwee...

[srean]

Ah yes that was it. Thank you.