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Having time to oust Conservative, inspire followers (9)

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I believe the answer is:

entourage

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

'having time to oust conservative inspire' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'time' could be 'age' (an age is a period of time) and 'age' is located in the answer.
'to' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for entourage that I've seen before include "Staff" , "Group of followers" , "The people accompanying a VIP" , "company" , "Group of attendants" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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