'Doctor' in academic role wanting one connected with Labour promoted (9)
I believe the answer is:
charlatan
'doctor' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Quack doctor' mean 'charlatan' so perhaps 'doctor' could also mean 'charlatan')
'academic role wanting one connected with labour promoted' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'one' could be 'an' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'an' is found in the answer.
'labour' could be 'l' and 'l' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for charlatan that I've seen before include "Impostor, deceiver" , "fake" , "Impostor, quack" , "Trickster" , "One who falsely claims to be an expert" .)