Possible Clues:

• Shut away in private
• One might mislay what is in the cupboard
• It's near to tea for the press
• Small room or cabinet for storage
• Cupboard (to come out of)
• Private to wind up sergeant, ultimately
• Secret - cupboard
• Cabinet's near to Tory leader
• He hasn't come out of dead-end road, end of street rock group
• Skeleton's place