The same reforms indicate Liberal leader (9)
I believe the answer is:
identical
'the same' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'reforms indicate liberal leader' is the wordplay.
'reforms' indicates anagramming the letters.
'leader' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'liberal' is 'l'.
'indicate' is an anagram of 'identica'.
'identica'+'l'='IDENTICAL'
(Other definitions for identical that I've seen before include "Impossible to tell apart" , "lacking distinction" , "Duplicate" , "Selfsame" , "Matching" .)