| FITT | Gerry --, Northern Ireland politician, a founder of the SDLP (4) |
| SOLPLAATJE | South African writer and politician; a founder member and first General Secretary of the SANNC (3,7) |
| IANS | Northern Ireland politician Paisley and others |
| MEIR | A founder of the state of Israel |
| HUNT | William Holman, English painter, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (4) |
| WEST | Benjamin -; a founder of the Royal Academy who served as its second president (4) |
| HANNA | South Belfast MP who is the only declared candidate for the position of leader of the SDLP. (5) |
| DAMP | Attorney finds politician a little on the wet side (4) |
| DUMP | Dutch politician a load of rubbish? (4) |
| MAIR | A founder of the Canada First nationalist movement |
| IMPI | Warrior group has one politician, a straight character (4) |
| GORE | Twitter in county referring to US politician a bloody cheat? (10,4) |
| WIMP | Mayfair politician, a feeble type (4) |
| HEMP | Male politician's a plant (4) |
| IANPAISLEY | Late Northern Ireland politician and Presbyterian minister, First Minister of Northern Ireland 2007-2008 (3,7) |
| MINISTER | Title of chap receiving Northern Ireland politician |
| ADDUP | Make sense of Northern Ireland politicians backing bill (3,2) |
| TRIMBLE | David, Northern Ireland politician who was its first First Minister from 1998 to 2002 (7) |
| WEDGWOOD | Potter, abolitionist and inventor of the jasperware with which he replicated the Portland Vase whose son John was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society (8) |
| SELFPOSSESSED | Fully in control of South, SDLP sees foes routed (4-9) |
