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Last but one team member in political residence?

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number ten

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'political residence?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'last but one team member' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'last' could be 't' (I've seen this in other clues) and 't' is present in the answer.
'member' could be 'mbe' and 'mbe' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for number ten that I've seen before include "PM's house" , "Prime Minister's official residence" , "Maybe X" , "Stand-off" , "political residence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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