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Drink to mark change Liberal left brought in (3,7)

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I believe the answer is:

tom collins

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'drink' is the definition.
(Tom Collins is an example)

'to mark change liberal left brought in' is the wordplay.
'mark' becomes 'm'.
'change liberal' becomes 'colins' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'brought in' is an insertion indicator.
'colins' enclosing 'l' is 'collins'.
'to'+'m'+'collins'='TOM COLLINS'

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(Other definitions for tom collins that I've seen before include "Gin-based cocktail" , "Cocktail using gin" , "Long iced drink of gin, lemon juice and soda water" , "Gin makes this" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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