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Talk about King - is male in reform movement? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chartism

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

'talk about king is male' is the wordplay.
'talk' becomes 'chat' (I've seen this before**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'king' becomes 'r' (r is abbreviation for rex).
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'chat' going around 'r' is 'chart'.
'chart'+'is'+'m'='CHARTISM'

'in' is the link.

(Another definition for chartism that I've seen is " C19 parliamentary reform movement".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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