1.   Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.

2.   Airline safety has become a political football.

3.   But can the game afford to hold its showpiece in an unstable country where sport is a political football?

4.   Funding of the health service has become a political football.

5.   I urge him to stop any move to allow the barrage project to continue to be used as a party political football.

6.   The Treasury felt strongly that changes in taxation for purposes of stabilising employment would immediately become a political football.

7.   What is more, we hate being used as political footballs by cynical politicians.

8.   I make a plea for Councillor not to use the children as a political football.