| SHAMI | ___ Chakrabarti, UK activist and Labour peer (5) |
| PETERHAIN | Former Anti-Apartheid Movement activist and Labour minister created a life peer in 2015 |
| GOLDSMITH | Name of Conservative (and Labour) peer - good, aged craftsperson (9) |
| HELENA | ____ Kennedy, barrister and Labour peer born in 1950 (6) |
| DAVID | Labour peer who was Home Secretary 2001-04 (5,8) |
| REETA | - - - - - Chakrabarti, newsreader (5) |
| CLEFT | Rift between Conservative and Labour? (5) |
| BERTH | Assigned place and Labour's result announced (5) |
| PREET | --- Gill, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston (5) |
| GULAG | The former central administrative department of the Soviet security service, which maintained prisons and labour camps (5) |
| BLUNKETT | Labour peer who was Home Secretary 2001-04 (5,8) |
| KINNOCK | Neil - - -, Labour peer |
| NEWS | What Reeta Chakrabarti presents (4) |
| HOUSEPARTIES | Fine Gael and Labour are usually noisy and the guards have to be called? (5,7) |
| CLEFTSTICK | Is voter in this when Conservative and Labour fail to advance? (5,5) |
| BOOBYTRAPPING | Tricky activity, where good taste and Labour, perhaps, slip back (5-8) |
| CLAMOROUS | Conservative and Labour leaders passionate and vociferous |
| REDLIGHT | Sign of danger: Tory embracing Balls and Labour leader (3,5) |
| ROBERTWINSTON | British medical doctor, scientist, TV presenter and Labour life peer (6,7) |
| RIGHTANDLEFT | Tory and Labour bilateral coalition perhaps (5-3-4) |
