1.   I wish the government could really tellingly er do down these dreadful lies and scandal erm scaremongering things that the Labour opposition is putting forward.

2.   At the same time the Labour opposition is predicting that the government will have to cave in on this key issue.

3.   She faces her first test as prime minister in Parliament Tuesday, when she will go head-to-head with Labour opposition leader Helen Clark during question time.

4.   Hardline Israeli Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday called for the creation of a government of national unity linking the right-wing Likud party with the Labour opposition.

5.   He was to meet Wednesday with new Labour opposition leader Tony Blair before giving a speech at Oxford University Wednesday evening.

6.   His plans aim to give the ruling Conservative Party an even chance against the poll-leading Labour opposition in general elections due next spring.

7.   Immigrant support groups and the Labour opposition have assailed the proposals as racist.

8.   A crusade by Labour opposition leader Tony Blair to revise the Marxist precepts on which his party was founded ran into a wall of opposition from trade unions Thursday.

9.   And perhaps in the process, enabling the heavily favored Labour opposition to snatch a few extra seats from the Conservatives.

10.   But it fell short of the total ban on all handguns demanded by the Labour opposition, by some Conservative members of parliament, and by bereaved Dunblane parents.