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Last of all in the debate, demolished, complained (7)

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I believe the answer is:

bleated

'complained' is the definition.
(bleating is a kind of complaining)

'last of all in the debate demolished' is the wordplay.
'last of' suggests the final letters.
'in the' indicates putting letters inside.
'demolished' indicates anagramming the letters.
The last letter of 'all' is 'l'.
'debate' with letters rearranged gives 'beated'.
'l' placed into 'beated' is 'BLEATED'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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