1.   High unemployment, non-payment of state wages and pensions and official cronyism and corruption will all be election issues.

2.   The economy had eclipsed the environment as an election issue.

3.   Rising crime has become a key election issue.

4.   The workshops have become an election issue.

5.   A key election issue where those who run services have to make tough decisions.

6.   The two sides eventually reached agreement but not before at least one priest had threatened to make it an election issue.

7.   For her the main election issues include taxation, the NHS and the poll tax which she believes will cost the Conservatives votes because of its unfairness.

8.   Along with the economy, immigration has emerged as the other main election issue.

9.   And the unexpectedly low floor price has turned the auction into a volatile election issue.