Senior politician wanting Queen to cut publicity quota for government (14)
I believe the answer is:
administration
'for government' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'senior politician wanting queen to cut publicity quota' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'queen' could be 'r' (abbreviation for regina, e.g. in ER ) and 'r' is found in the answer.
'publicity' could be 'ad' (short for advertisement) and 'ad' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for administration that I've seen before include "Running a business" , "government in power" .)