Has he the initial right to be leading, possibly? (8)
I believe the answer is:
reginald
'has he' is the definition.
'Reginald' can be an answer for 'he'. I'm unsure of the 'has' bit.
'initial right to be leading possibly?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'leading' is 'eginald' which is within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reginald that I've seen before include "Man" , "-- Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's valet" , "Man's name" .)