21.   Labour opposition leader Tony Blair said Thursday that he was better placed than Prime Minister John Major to build on the legacy of former Tory premier Margaret Thatcher.

22.   Late Wednesday many MPs came into the chamber to hear the allegations, and Tory MPs jeered as the Labour opposition cheered.

23.   Labour opposition defence spokesman David Clark said the government had been forced into a U-turn over the issue.

24.   Labour opposition leader and former prime minister Shimon Peres has discussed formation of a national unity government with Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon, the daily Haaretz reported Friday.

25.   Labour opposition leader Tony Blair, tipped in virtually all polls to be prime minister after general elections due in less than two years, just smiled.

26.   Many, looking at polls pointing increasingly to a Tory drubbing at the hands of Labour opposition, may have preferred to quit rather than lose.

27.   Mahendra Chaudhry, lead of the Labour opposition party, has challenged the government to reveal details of both local and overseas shareholding in Asia Oceania.

28.   Major has been savaged by commentators and the Labour opposition who say that the prime minister is incapable of fostering even a semblance of party unity on this issue.

29.   Newly-elected Labour opposition leader Tony Blair would make the best prime minister for Britain, according to a poll in the generally pro-Conservative Sunday Telegraph.

30.   Prime Minister John Major, trailing far behind the Labour opposition, mouthed cursory support for Hamilton but made clear he could do very nicely without this extra baggage.