Stopping speaking, Conservative reluctant to give aid for domestic workers (6-2,5)

'give aid for domestic workers' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'stopping speaking conservative reluctant' is the wordplay.
'stopping speaking' becomes 'dryingup' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'reluctant' becomes 'loth' (if you are loth to do something you are reluctant).
'dryingup'+'c'+'loth'='DRYING-UP CLOTH'

'to' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?