Kerry banished Republicans and announced full type of surgery (7)
I believe the answer is:
keyhole
'type of surgery' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'kerry banished republicans and announced full' is the wordplay.
'banished' suggests deleting specific letters.
'republicans' becomes 'rr' (political abbreviation for republican repeated).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'announced full' becomes 'hole' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'kerry' with 'rr' removed is 'key'.
'key'+'hole'='KEYHOLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for keyhole that I've seen before include "Sort of surgery" , "Opening in door etc" , "Aperture for lock opening" , "Opening for the opener" , "It provides access to wards" .)