Sorry impasse surrounding Conservative flight from reality (8)
I believe the answer is:
escapism
'flight from reality' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'sorry impasse surrounding conservative' is the wordplay.
'sorry' indicates anagramming the letters (letters in a sorry state).
'surrounding' is an insertion indicator.
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'impasse' with letters rearranged gives 'esapism'.
'esapism' going around 'c' is 'ESCAPISM'.
(Other definitions for escapism that I've seen before include "break from reality" , "Tendency to flee reality" , "Flight from reality" , "Avoiding reality by fantasising" , "Avoiding the actual" .)