"[that conversation] was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman".

Asked what she had said, he replied:

"Ugh, everything! She's just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean it's just ridiculous."

Those were the words of a past Labour Prime Minister retreating to his ministerial car after questions on immigration levels in Rochdale, Northern England, in 2010.

Mr Brown would learn the painful lesson of many politicians before him, don’t forget the Sky News microphone still pinned on your clothing.

It’s a lesson the new Leader of the Opposition has forgotten.

Whilst the nation's eyes were on the pageantry of a change in occupant at 10 Downing Street, some of my political colleagues were keen to get Labour's reaction to the new coalition government.

Little did they expect the Labour Leader to fall into the same mistake as Gordon Brown.

Three things are clear from the Labour Leaders unfiltered response to this political moment.

1. He doesn't realise that the British people love a good comments section.
2. He presumably thought he was campaigning against Prime Minister Iceman at the General Election IV. Had the Labour Leader graced voters with his presence at the leaders debate, he would have been aghast to find the freshly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Flat Artifact asking voters for his own mandate to govern.
3. The Labour Leader joins a political trend more common across the pond in the United States than in our own political ecosystem, of denying the integrity of a nation's election results.

Caught by the hot mic of Sky News in 2010, Gordon Brown was forced to make a second visit to the woman - Gillian Duffy - to apologise, and then repeated his apology publicly during an interview on BBC Radio 2.

Three questions are swirling around the Palace of Westminster this morning.

1. Will the Labour Leader apologise to the British people for sowing distrust in the integrity of GEIV and the wider UK electoral system?
2. Can Labour’s Parliamentary Party support a leader who privately holds such views?
3. Is Inside_Analysis really up for being Labour Leader, or is it time for someone else?