Caretaker following Conservative peer (12)
I believe the answer is:
contemporary
'peer' is the definition.
(I know that contemporary is a type of peer)
'caretaker following conservative' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'conservative' could be 'con' (abbreviation for Conservative) and 'con' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'temporary' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for contemporary that I've seen before include "Modern in style or design" , "current" .)