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These leaders could be real idiots (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

editorials

'these leaders' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'could be real idiots' is the wordplay.
'could be' is an anagram indicator.
'real'+'idiots'='realidiots'
'realidiots' with letters rearranged gives 'EDITORIALS'.

(Other definitions for editorials that I've seen before include "Leading articles" , "Newspapers' opinion columns" , "Leaders" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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