Pope likes teasing liberals with special ability to work with others (6,6)

'ability to work with others' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'pope likes teasing liberals with special' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'pope' is 'peop' which is within the answer.
an anagram of 'likes' is 'leski' which is located in the answer.
'liberals' could be 'll' (a political abbreviation for liberal written twice) and 'll' is present in the answer.
'special' could be 's' (common abbreviation as in Special Air Service) and 's' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?