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Unrestrained harangue involving a politician (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rampant

'unrestrained' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'harangue involving a politician' is the wordplay.
'harangue' becomes 'rant' ('rant' can be a synonym of 'harangue').
'involving' is an insertion indicator.
'politician' becomes 'mp'.
'a'+'mp'='amp'
'rant' enclosing 'amp' is 'RAMPANT'.

(Other definitions for rampant that I've seen before include "Unrestrained, flourishing excessively" , "Flourishing excessively as disease may be" , "Growing or spreading uncontrollably" , "Spreading like wildfire" , "Unbridled" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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