Marginal Gains

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Across
  1. 4. Legendary Labour MP since 1970 nicknamed ‘Beast of Bolsover’ (7).
  2. 7. Two-time British PM who was in office for England’s 1966 world cup glory (6)
  3. 8. Title of memoirs by Damian McBride, a former spin doctor to Gordon brown (5,4)
  4. 9. David Miliband became a Director of this Premier League football club (10).
  5. 13. Irish term for Prime Minister (9).
  6. 15. British political party which won just 1 seat in 2015, despite tallying over 3.8million votes (4).
  7. 18. Seaside town popular for party conferences, and the site of an IRA bomb in 1984 which nearly killed Margaret Thatcher (8).
  8. 20. 20th-century British PM nicknamed ‘Sunny Jim’ for his good humour during a turbulent period of office (9).
  9. 21. ‘Electoral ___’, the complex proportional voting system used in US presidential elections (7).
  10. 22. Acronym for government department for which Liz Truss is Secretary of State (5).
  11. 23. Surname of actor who played Frank Underwood in US version of ‘House of Cards’(6).
  12. 25. Surname of US President between 1977-1981 (6).
Down
  1. 1. Surname of current British Foreign Secretary (7).
  2. 2. ‘Tough on ___, Tough on the causes of ___’ – policy area identified by Tony Blair as being vital to winning Middle England (5).
  3. 3. Surname of the current Cabinet Secretary for the UK government (7).
  4. 5. First name of Solihull’s MP between 2005-2015 (6).
  5. 6. Name for an area which elects representatives to the House of Commons(12)
  6. 10. First name of media tycoon who owns the Sun and the Times (6).
  7. 11. Fathers 4 ____, a pressure group whose members dressed in superhero costumes to gain media attention (7).
  8. 12. Moniker which media gave Iain Duncan Smith, who infamously ‘turned up the volume’ at the 2003 Tory conference (5,3).
  9. 14. Surname of former Lib Dem MP who wrote ‘The Storm’, a bestselling book about the financial crisis (5).
  10. 16. Surname of ‘Blairite’ candidate who stood in 2015 Labour leadership election (7)
  11. 17. Media or Secret Service acronym for the position of office which Michelle Obama currently holds (6)
  12. 19. Independent Senator from Vermont who is current frontrunner for 2016 Democratic nomination alongside Hillary Clinton (7).
  13. 24. Ed Balls has reached Grade Five at this instrument (5).
  14. 25. Acronym for an emergency meeting, chaired by the PM, which takes place in the Cabinet Office (5).