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Leader? Real idiot, unfortunately (9)

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I believe the answer is:

editorial

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

'real idiot unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator.
'real'+'idiot'='realidiot'
'realidiot' anagrammed gives 'EDITORIAL'.

(Other definitions for editorial that I've seen before include "Statement of a newspaper's opinion" , "Article giving a newspaper's opinion" , "Newspaper opinion piece" , "leader, perhaps" , "Newspaper item" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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