| ORTHODOX | Conservative PM once lacking leadership, old Con cross (8) |
| HAVEN | Shelter, perfect place when once lacking energy |
| GALLIANO | Old con getting around arrest picked up man with romantic designs? (8) |
| DISRAELI | Victorian Conservative PM on two occasions (8) |
| STOODOUT | Brawny old con entering caught the eye (5,3) |
| CAMPAIGN | Plan of action designed to get Conservative PM again? |
| THATCHER | Future conservative PM born in 1925, Margaret ... |
| OMELETTE | European capital lacking leadership over European directive ultim-ately, one's panned (8) |
| FRENETIC | Wild, hairy monster lacking leadership entering as Sarkozy, short (8) |
| THEORIES | The Conservatives: lacking leadership, ideas (8) |
| SARDONIC | Cynical vicars lacking leadership strangely suppress the wordless approval's reversal (8) |
| GANGLAND | The underworld of Georgia and England lacking leadership (8) |
| RESIDENT | Living leader lacking leadership! (8) |
| STOCKTON | 1st Earl of -; title of former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan (8) |
| TOPHEAVY | Unstable work in the fleet, lacking leadership (3-5) |
| PERCEVAL | British Conservative prime minister assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812 (7,8) |
| TEDHEATH | Former Conservative Prime Minister who used to sail in his yachts called Morning Cloud (3,5) |
| CATTLE | Stock Conservative PM once short of energy (6) |
| SPENCERPERCEVAL | Conservative plan - persevere somehow to install Conservative PM |
| HEREFORDCATTLE | Kind of stock car owned by present Conservative PM briefly (8,6) |
