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Premier turned up to speak, missing point? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

potus

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'speak missing point?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'premier turned up' is the wordplay.
'premier' becomes 'top' (I've seen this before).
'turned' is a reversal indicator.
'up' becomes 'us' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'top' reversed gives 'pot'.
'pot'+'us'='POTUS'

'to' is the link.

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