Possible Clues:

• Cinders initially wearing shoe creates gossip
• Study on youth recalled damage to reputation
• Politico feller
• Public disgrace
• Event ending in -gate
• Object of much discussion caught in shoe
• Disgraceful event in examination – boy shown up
• Malicious talk about council's leader's footwear
• Reason to resign
• Cinders, initially in shoe, causes gossip