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English politician beginning to organise broadcast about stores (7)

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I believe the answer is:

emporia

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

'english politician beginning to organise broadcast about' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'politician' becomes 'mp'.
'beginning to' indicates taking the first letters.
'broadcast' becomes 'air' ('air' can be a synonym of 'broadcast'**).
'about' is a reversal indicator.
The first letter of 'organise' is 'o'.
'air' written backwards gives 'ria'.
'e'+'mp'+'o'+'ria'='EMPORIA'

(Other definitions for emporia that I've seen before include "Large stores" , "I'm a rope (anag)" , "Large retail shops" , "large-scale marketing operations" , "sales outlets" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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