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Wives put out to pasture prepare noodles for the party faithful(6-4,5)

Twenty-four carat

The defn. is rather loose Les, try this version...

Wives put out to pasture prepare noodles for Tory activists(6-4,5)

OK, Les, I want to see the parsing !

You got me Syzzie, I was going with 'Twenty-four carat' because it means 'Faithful'
Then realised nothing fits with the cryptic

Oh Well!

Swivel-eyed loons

...a recently coined (allegedly) phrase....

Hope that's better, the Parse is much easier now thanks ixion
anag + Ley + anag = Def (Tory activists

Correct Les

Swive[l-ey]ed loons

It's a massive coincidence ixion because I saw it on the news tonight, the guy talking about it looked like he liked a Scotch or twelve (It takes one to know one, if you know what i mean)