The Opposition Deputy Leader alleged that repeated mention of Dame Lois Browne-Evans during a Progressive Labour Party rally was opportunistic.

And she suggested the heavy weight politician was no fan of the current Premier Ewart Brown. Deputy Leader Patricia Gordon-Pamplin also vowed to have a clean election campaign and said the United Bermuda Party had a strong chance of winning an election, which has not yet been called, because of Dr. Brown’s actions.

In a reply to Dr. Brown’s impassioned rally speech held at West Pembroke Primary last week, she said: “Dr. Brown used Dame Lois’s name a lot during his speech. He ended by declaring ‘let’s do this for the Dame’ over and over again.

“I believe that many Bermudians will feel Dr. Brown was being insincere in his references to Dame Lois. She was, after all, a woman of great integrity, who would have been as shocked as the rest of us about the allegations contained in those Police files. She would also have been as shocked as the rest of us were to hear Dr. Brown say ‘we had to mislead you’ to excuse his lack of candour before the political assassination of Dame Jennifer Smith.

“We know that Dame Lois did not support Dr Brown in either of one of his drives for the leadership of the PLP.

“Probably, we’ll never know what Dame Lois really thought of Ewart Brown, but it is a mystery I urge voters to reflect on.

“Do not permit the Premier to hide his behaviour behind the integrity of the beloved Dame. Consider the statement by a very strong PLP supporter who lamented the Premier ‘plundering the emotion of the older voters who he is hoping will buy his rhetoric, and who he hopes cannot form intelligent opinions.’

“My own guess is that at the very least, Dame Lois would not have approved of her name being used to save Dr Brown’s political skin, a man whose ethics she would certainly not share, and a man who is apparently as mistrusted within his party as outside it.”

During the event Dame Lois’ son, Donald, gave a speech thanking the PLP and Bermuda for remembering the contribution his mother made to the Island and politics.

Yesterday Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin denied that the upcoming election was the “last chance” for her party to govern the country, as suggested by Dr. Brown at the rally, and maintained that the UBP would have a clean campaign that stayed away from Dr. Brown’s “militant attack” on her party.

She added: “We believe we will win this election, largely because Dr. Brown, by his misdeeds and his tantrums and his deceptions, has caused the scales to fall from the eyes of those who supported him in the past. They can now see him as he truly is.”

She also denied that her party was involved in the leaked Police files given to Mid Ocean News, which contain allegations of corruption at the Bermuda Housing Corporation.

The documents reportedly revealed that Dr. Brown was investigated by fraud squad officers looking into the BHC allegations. She said: “We have said before that we had no involvement, but just for the sake of getting it straight, let me repeat - the United Bermuda Party had absolutely nothing to do with the leak of those files, not directly, not indirectly, not by commission or omission.”