Make law better than revolutionary lashings (7)
I believe the answer is:
redraft
'make law better' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'revolutionary lashings' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' becomes 'red' (red can informally mean a communist).
'lashings' becomes 'raft' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'red'+'raft'='REDRAFT'
'than' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for redraft that I've seen before include "second edition" , "Altered document" , "Corrected version" , "Change outline" , "Make a copy" .)