1. Here is the news read by Alan Townend. Today the Government is ________ plans for a new scheme to help society.

2. Whatever you do take no notice of him because he's not thinking straight he's talking ________ his hat.

3. At last she's made her mind up and decided to throw her hat in the ________ and become a candidate.

4. He gave us little to no indication ________ his whereabouts.

5. You simply can't trust that politician because he changes his mind every five minutes at the ________ of a hat.

6. and he finally ________ a seat in the House of Commons by a very large majority.

7. This was of course very embarrassing for the P.M. and ________ of the speech he told funny stories.

8. Last week the Prime Minister had to give an important address to an international ________ when he found his speech had disappeared.

9. His ________ was entirely ambiguous.

10. If child A steals child B's exercise book, child A will have to stand up in front of the school and ________ to being a thief.