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Unimportant point elaborately made by the Tory leader (6)

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I believe the answer is:

tinpot

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'unimportant' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives.
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'point elaborately made by the tory leader' is the wordplay.
'elaborately' indicates anagramming the letters.
'made by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (letters written or made by another set of letters).
'leader' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'tory' is 't'.
'point' with letters rearranged gives 'tinpo'.
'tinpo'+'t'='TINPOT'

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(Other definitions for tinpot that I've seen before include "Pathetic" , "of little value" , "Rubbishy" , "useless" , "Mickey Mouse" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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