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Flawed Member of Parliament involved in current broadcast (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

impaired

'flawed' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'member of parliament involved in current broadcast' is the wordplay.
'member of parliament' becomes 'MP' (abbreviation).
'involved' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'in current' becomes 'i' (symbol for electric current. I am not sure about the 'in' bit.).
'broadcast' becomes 'aired' (synonyms).
'i'+'aired'='iaired'
'mp' going within 'iaired' is 'IMPAIRED'.

(Other definitions for impaired that I've seen before include "Disabled" , "handicapped" , "Injured; weakened" , "Hampered" , "Damaged, marred" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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