Politician a long time getting a bill out, possibly (7)
I believe the answer is:
liberal
'politician a long' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'time getting a bill out possibly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'era' (an era is a period of time) and 'era' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'bill' is 'libl' which is present in the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for liberal that I've seen before include "Large-minded" , "Bountiful" , "Progressive -- open-handed" , "Favouring a political philosophy of progress and reform" , "Giving generously" .)