Possible Clues:

• Shreds, rags
• Given time spuds will be in shreds
• Rags, shreds
• Test art works, little pieces
• Secret spillers
• Urchin’s attire
• “Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in ____” (Peter Mandelson, after his 2001 re-election as MP for Hartlepool)
• Torn clothes
• Ragged pieces
• Among the rest, a teetotaller is all in bits