Speaker’s fooled after Tories press together (9)
I believe the answer is:
constrict
'press together' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'speaker's fooled after tories' is the wordplay.
'speaker's fooled' becomes 'strict' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'tories' becomes 'con' (abbreviation for the Conservative Party).
'strict' after 'con' is 'CONSTRICT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for constrict that I've seen before include "Put the squeeze on" , "narrow?" , "Cramp tightly" , "Pinch" , "press" .)