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A politician reportedly entering exam relating to speechmaking (9)

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I believe the answer is:

oratorial

'relating to speechmaking' is the definition.
(relating to oratory)

'a politician reportedly entering exam' is the wordplay.
'politician reportedly' becomes 'tori' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'entering' is an insertion indicator.
'exam' becomes 'oral' (spoken academic test).
'a'+'tori'='atori'
'atori' put inside 'oral' is 'ORATORIAL'.

(Another definition for oratorial that I've seen is " Well-spoken".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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