Possible Clues:

• Scrap in bar swallowing last of lager
• Former winner, it's believed, maintains pressure -- and that's not all
• Passage that's taken right into bar
• Cutting Republican settles in bar
• Passage right inside bar
• Quote in a book review
• Passage (from a book)
• Passage from work
• Bit of work Rex secured in bar
• Cutting less is just about the end of Labour