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Conservative husband and wife prepared to meet well-informed cabinet member (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chief whip

'cabinet member' is the definition.
(member of UK government)

'conservative husband and wife prepared to meet well-informed' is the wordplay.
'conservative husband' becomes 'ch' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'prepared' indicates an anagram.
'to meet' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'well-informed' becomes 'hip'.
'wife' anagrammed gives 'iefw'.
'ch'+'iefw'+'hip'='CHIEF WHIP'

(Another definition for chief whip that I've seen is " Top party disciplinarian".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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