| HEALEY | Denis, Chancellor of the Exchequer in James Callaghan's Labour government (6) |
| JOACHIM | Callaghan's accepted old chestnut about a German |
| STRIFE | White paper from 1969 in which the UK Labour government proposed reform of trade union law (2,5,2,6) |
| SEMPLE | Union leader who became a minister in the first Labour Government, 'Fighting Bob' ___ (6) |
| ADONIS | Lord ____ was a minister in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Labour governments |
| JOHNMCDONNELL | British Labour MP made shadow chancellor of the exchequer in 2015 (4,9) |
| SIMON | John, politician who served as foreign secretary, home secretary and chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1930s and 40s (5) |
| MACLEOD | Iain, Tory chancellor of the exchequer in 1970 (7) |
| JAVID | Sajid -, Conservative MP for Bromsgrove appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2019 (5) |
| BUMPPO | Hawk-eyed protagonist "Natty", in James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of Leatherstocking Tales including The Last of the Mohicans (6) |
| KEMBLE | Fanny, English actress who created the role of Julia in James Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback (6) |
| IEYASU | Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate depicted in James Clavells Shogun (6) |
| BEVIN | Surname of the Foreign Secretary in the Labour Government of 1945 (5) |
| NESTOR | The second episode in James Joyce's book Ulysses (6) |
| ODDJOB | Bowler-hatted villain played by Harold Sakata in James Bond movie Goldfinger (6) |
| INPLACE | White paper from 1969 in which the UK Labour government proposed reform of trade union law (2,5,2,6) |
| OF | White paper from 1969 in which the UK Labour government proposed reform of trade union law (2,5,2,6) |
| LETDIE | Film released 50 years ago, culminating in James Bond dispatching a villainous henchman out of a train window (4, 3, 3, 3) |
| SMERSH | Russian org. and enemy in James Bond films |
| TAIPAN | Second book in James Clavell's Asian Saga |
