17 VAT announcement of Labour leader (4) KIER - a type of vat. Sounds like (announcement of) Keir (Starmer, current Labour leader) or (Hardie, the first Labour leader). (View Post)

23 TEA PARTY MEMBER caught in a lie (5) ALICE - c (caught) inside ‘a lie”. A LI (C) E Alice in Wonderland attended, so was a member of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. (View Post)

5 HE DIDN’T SUCCEED the Spanish Queen (5) LOSER - Los (the Spanish) ER (Queen. Elizabeth Regina). (View Post)

7 Greece’s part of this once (3) EEC - part of Gr(EEC)e. (View Post)

2 Crosby by-election’s penultimate DECLARATION OF WINNER (5) BINGO - Bing (Crosby, crooner) by- (next to) “O” (election’s penultimate letter). Bing O. Bingo is what a winner declares when playing the… (View Post)