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Commenting on recent Royal Gazette stories quoting former United Bermuda Party minister Quinton Edness describing House Speaker Stanley Lowe as a "puppet'' of Premier Jennifer Smith, the Attorney General told both sides of the House yesterday: "This makes me wonder, we should take a vote of confidence in the Speaker.'' However neither Government nor Opposition benches rose to her challenge.

Dame Lois said that if one were to visit Parliaments in other Commonwealth countries, Bermuda's rowdiness would pale in comparison.

She also said that she had been in the House since 1963 and the behaviour now was no better or worse than in past years.

Dame Lois recalled racist remarks made by former leaders and said she had "expunged '' some of the comments from her biography as she considered them too offensive.

And she said: "This isn't Sunday School in here.'' House coverage begins on Page 4