Statesman and duke seen with Benjamin Netanyahu? (8)
I believe the answer is:
disraeli
'statesman' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Victorian statesman' mean 'disraeli' so perhaps 'statesman' could also mean 'disraeli')
'duke seen with benjamin netanyahu?' is the wordplay.
'duke' becomes 'd'.
'seen with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'benjamin netanyahu?' becomes 'israeli' (I've seen this before).
'd'+'israeli'='DISRAELI'
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for disraeli that I've seen before include "Benjamin ........ 19th century English P.M." , "Ali dries out for the former British prime minister" , "Old Prime Minister and novelist" , "Benjamin -, nineteenth century PM" , "Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, d. 1881" .)