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Two groups of politicians to accommodate or a lot of researchers here (12)

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I believe the answer is:

laboratories

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'lot of researchers here' is the definition.

'two groups of politicians to accommodate or a' is the wordplay.
'two groups of' becomes 'lab' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'politicians' becomes 'tories' (I've seen this in other clues).
'to accommodate' indicates putting letters inside.
'lab'+'tories'='labtories'
'or'+'a'='ora'
'labtories' going around 'ora' is 'LABORATORIES'.

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(Another definition for laboratories that I've seen is " Rooms for scientists".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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