Whip has compliments about Conservative's deeds (15)
I believe the answer is:
accomplishments
'conservative's deeds' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'whip has compliments about' is the wordplay.
'whip' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'whipped' mean this).
'about' becomes 'c' (abbreviation for circa).
'has'+'compliments'+'c'='hascomplimentsc'
'hascomplimentsc' anagrammed gives 'ACCOMPLISHMENTS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for accomplishments that I've seen is " Acts".)