| SEMPLE | Union leader who became a minister in the first Labour Government, 'Fighting Bob' ___ (6) |
| PARSON | Normal lad is a minister in the church (6) |
| SNOWDEN | Philip ---, British politician who was the first Labour chancellor of the exchequer (7) |
| ADONIS | Lord ____ was a minister in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Labour governments |
| CASTRO | Fidel, Cuban political leader who became a symbol of communist revolution in Central America (6) |
| ASHDOWN | Paddy, ex-Liberal Democrat leader who became a peacemaker in war-torn Bosnia (7) |
| ELCID | 11th-century Castilian military leader who became a legendary national hero (2,3) |
| HOFFA | Jimmy ___, US Teamsters union leader who disappeared in July 1975 (5) |
| ABRAHAMLINCOLN | Union leader who met a theatrical end? |
| NIKITA | ___ Khrushchev, Soviet leader who became his country's first head of state to visit the U.S. in 1959 (6) |
| STRIFE | White paper from 1969 in which the UK Labour government proposed reform of trade union law (2,5,2,6) |
| HEALEY | Denis, Chancellor of the Exchequer in James Callaghan's Labour government (6) |
| ATTLEE | A prime minister in the UK - or a glacier in Antarctica (6) |
| PASTOR | A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation (6) |
| TAVERN | Can a minister, in short, go back into a hole (6) |
| BUDGET | Annual financial statement presented by the Finance Minister in the Indian Parliament outlining government revenues and expenditures (6) |
| NAMING | Citation from a minister in Norway and Germany's capitals (6) |
| EDWINA | __ Currie, author and former health minister in the Thatcher government (6) |
| VIZIER | Grand ___, title for a chief minister in the Ottoman empire (6) |
| HARDIE | Keir _; first Labour party leader (6) |
