Dramatic articles on Conservative in court case (10)
I believe the answer is:
theatrical
'dramatic' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'articles on conservative in court case' is the wordplay.
'articles' becomes 'thea' (two examples of the part-of-speech: the+a**).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'conservative' becomes 'c' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'court case' becomes 'trial' (I've seen this before).
'c' inserted into 'trial' is 'trical'.
'thea'+'trical'='THEATRICAL'
(Other definitions for theatrical that I've seen before include "Artificial and exaggerated" , "overdramatic" , "Relating to acting/actors" , "Excessively dramatic" , "Showbiz" .)