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Endlessly proclaim Irish politicians fake (7-2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trumped-up

'fake' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'endlessly proclaim irish politicians' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'proclaim' becomes 'trumpet' (trumpeting is a kind of proclaiming).
'irish politicians' becomes 'DUP' (Democratic Unionist Party).
'trumpet' with its final letter taken away is 'trumpe'.
'trumpe'+'dup'='TRUMPED-UP'

(Other definitions for trumped-up that I've seen before include "Invented, false" , "Concocted with intent to deceive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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