Laid about politician for dallying (8)
I believe the answer is:
dilatory
'dallying' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'laid about politician' is the wordplay.
'about' is an anagram indicator.
'politician' becomes 'tory' (I've seen this before).
'laid' with letters rearranged gives 'dila'.
'dila'+'tory'='DILATORY'
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for dilatory that I've seen before include "Tardy" , "Tending to delay" , "Intended to delay" , "Tending towards procrastination" , "Causing delay" .)