Across
1. Pig-headed leader & Architect of 9 across (5,7)
2. Trump's second opponent in his third presidential race (6)
3. Below Budget Corporation (3)
4. The main theme of this crossword which might bore some (8)
9. Staple of Conservative economic policy since 2010 (9)
11. Decision taken on a 52/48 decision in 2016 in the UK(6)
13. The Party that launched the Rwanda Plan (13)
15. Political party that's not a party but a business (6,2)
16. Currency that Britain fought hard not to join (4)
18. Sleepy President (3,5)
20. Socialist Labour Leader who didn't make it to Number 10 (6)
23. Labour Ed who bears a resemblance to Aardman's Wallace (8)
Down
1. First black woman MP who drank a mojito on a train and made headlines (5,6)
2. Party leader named after the founder of the Labour Party (4,7)
5. Tory with a billionaire heiress wife and
misjudged calling a general election (5,5)
6. News outlet that hires Lee Anderson and Nigel Farage on its team
(2,4)
7. Rayner who's deputy Prime Minister or Merkel who was German Chancellor (6)
8. Former party leader with name being slang for the male
appendage (5,7)
10. 930-year-old gargoyle that owns Fox News, The Times and The Sun (6,7)
12. Sometimes Party leader and MP when it suits him whose name rhymes with
Garage (6)
14. What the world keeps digging for despite it leading ultimately to our destruction (3)
17. Tugendhat who finished in fourth place in the Conservative leadership election of 2024 (3)
18. Hunt who often got called a ruder word beginning with C (6)
19. Home of Vladimir Putin (7)
21. Badenoch who's leader of the Conservatives (4)
22. Trump's real Germanic sounding surname (6)
