Angry Opposition leader Pamela Gordon yesterday fired back at the St. Antony's Conference "breach of confidence'' allegations by a British MP -- defending her actions.

Ms Gordon shot back at Scottish Labour MP Ian Davidson, who said she had violated strict Chatham House Rules prohibiting reporting other people's comments in the conference sessions.

And Ms Gordon said The Royal Gazette had taken the story out of context in following up a broadcast news report.

"This is mis-information that attacks my integrity and if nothing else, all I have is my integrity,'' she added.

Ms Gordon flatly denied ever revealing what others said during the conference last month.

She said: "A reporter contacted me and said he had comments from people who had been at the event who complained to him about what Mr. Davidson had complained about.

"My comments were in response to what the comments of those people allegedly were,'' Ms Gordon explained. "That is not in breach of the Chatham House Rules.

"If I had gone and made comments directly and said Ian Davidson had said this in the conference and Jennifer Smith had said that in this meeting -- that is in breach of the rules.'' Ms Gordon added: "The reporter called me up and said `these people called me and these people made these comments about the conference'.

"That's what happened. And that's a big difference. There was no breach on my part and I don't like anybody bringing my integrity into question.'' Ms Gordon defended releasing to The Royal Gazette her speech to the St.

Antony's Conference, complaining about Premier Smith's comments, saying the Premier had already released her own speech.

And Ms Gordon went further and complained Mr. Davidson had interfered in Bermuda's politics, breaching a different set of rules.

"I'll go one step further because I believe that while Mr. Davidson may have been misguided that I was in breach of Chatham House Rules,'' she explained, "that once the facts were put to him, I would hope that he was big enough in relation to his assumptions (and apologise).

"It's most unfortunate that this comes from another country, someone sitting in another parliament, and gets into local politics in such a partisan way,'' Ms Gordon concluded. "You shouldn't get involved in another country the way that Mr. Davidson has. It's all an horrific error.'' POLITICS PTL