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Broadcast from Conservative in poor taste? Right (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scatter

'broadcast' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'conservative in poor taste? right' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'c' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'poor' indicates anagramming the letters.
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'taste' with letters rearranged gives 'satte'.
'c' put inside 'satte' is 'scatte'.
'scatte'+'r'='SCATTER'

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for scatter that I've seen before include "Broadcast" , "Throw randomly" , "Strew randomly" , "Separate and move off in different directions" , "Throw in random directions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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