Possible Clues:

• Bit of paper? Shred it, or I also will display it
• Leader potentially real idiot
• Leader to check over refuge on way up
• Newspaper leader
• Reverse tendency with test covering international leader
• Real idiot broadcast declaration of opinion
• Leader takes time going over college, so to speak
• A leader of the Irish Times, for instance
• Leader of opinion?
• Article laid Tories almost in shreds