Green snubs Conservative following papers based on beliefs (11)
I believe the answer is:
ideological
'green snubs' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'conservative following papers based on beliefs' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'conservative' could be 'c' (UK political abbreviation) and 'c' is found in the answer.
'papers' could be 'id' (identification papers) and 'id' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for ideological that I've seen is " Like beliefs".)