| OSWALD | ___ Mosley, English politician who founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932 (6) |
| DAVEY | Ed, English politician who became sole leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2020 (5) |
| ROBERTCLIVE | Soldier and statesman who founded the British Empire in India (6.5) |
| HANSSLOANE | Physician who founded the British Museum (4,6) |
| MOSLEY | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1929-30; founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 (6,6) |
| OSWALDMOSLEY | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1929-30; founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 |
| FATHOM | Understand leader of fascists, in briefly (6) |
| SLOANE | Hans, Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist whose collection founded the British Museum and after whom a London square is named (6) |
| EFFETE | Degenerate English leader of Fascist party (6) |
| FAMOUS | Legendary couple of leaders of fascist movement usurped? (6) |
| BAUBLE | Trinket British union leader put back in package |
| ILDUCE | Title assumed by Benito Mussolini as leader of Fascist Italy (2,4) |
| BUSTUP | British union puts off quarrel (4-2) |
| EAMONDEVALERA | American-born Irish politician who founded the political party Fianna Fail in 1926 (5,2,6) |
| MAO | _ Zedong, Chinese politician who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 (3) |
| CECILRHODES | English-born mining magnate and politician who founded a state in Southern Africa in the 1890s (5,6) |
| GANG | _ of Four, breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (4) |
| FARRAGO | Position of fascists in the past - it's a mixed bag |
| IMRANKHAN | Pakistani politician who founded the Pakistan Movement for Justice in 1996 (5,4) |
| PIERS | ___ Corbyn, former politician who founded the weather prediction business WeatherAction in 1995 (5) |