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Conservative on slope with journalist, restricted (7)

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I believe the answer is:

cramped

'restricted' is the definition.
(cramping is a kind of restricting)

'conservative on slope with journalist' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'slope' becomes 'ramp' (I've seen this before).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'c'+'ramp'+'ed'='CRAMPED'

(Other definitions for cramped that I've seen before include "Being tight" , "Without enough room" , "Confined, crowded" , "With little room" , "Short of space" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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