| CHRISLESLIE | Former Labour MP for Shipley and Nottingham East who left the party in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 |
| AIRE | Shipley and Bingley's river (4) |
| OWEN | --- Smith, former Labour MP who contested the leadership of the party in 2016 (4) |
| BERGER | Luciana, the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree who rejoined the party in 2023 (6) |
| PERESTROIKA | The policy of reconstructing the economy in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev (11) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
| CHIANG | In 1934 around 100,000 Chinese communists under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung retreated 10,000 km from the Nationalist Army of ... Kai-Shek in what was to become known as the Long March |
| FAIRDEAL | The principles of the Democratic party under the leadership of US President Harry S. Truman (4,4) |
| CASPAR | (New Testament) One of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus. |
| SHADOW | The counterpart in the main opposition party to a member or section of the party in power (6) |
| DOBSON | Frank ?, former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras; Secretary of State for Health from 1997-99 |
| ORME | Stanley -, former Labour MP for both Salford East and Salford West; Minister for Social Security from 1976-79 |
| PN | Australian track sprinter figured in the infamous Black Power 200m podium protest at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, initials (2) |
| KING | Former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, created a life peer in 2011 (4,4) |
| OONA | Former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, created a life peer in 2011 (4,4) |
| RAMILLIES | Battle in 1706 under the leadership of the Duke of Marlborough (9) |
| SOLIDARITY | Independent federation of Polish trade unions formed in 1980 under the leadership of Lech Walesa, outlawed from 1982 to 1989 (10) |
| LIKUD | Right-wing Israeli political party founded in 1973 under the leadership of Menachem Begin (5) |
| PRUSSIA | German state that unified the country into an Empire under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck in 1871 (7) |
| LITTLESLAM | Success at games table bringing a bit of a protest at the doorway? (6,4) |
