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Effort to welcome a Conservative girl (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tracy

'girl' is the definition.

'effort to welcome a conservative' is the wordplay.
'effort' becomes 'try' (synonyms).
'to welcome' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are welcomed in).
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'a'+'c'='ac'
'try' enclosing 'ac' is 'TRACY'.

(Other definitions for tracy that I've seen before include "Film actor" , "Spencer -, US actor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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