Possible Clues:

• Some neck in butcher's shop to send over first copy of local tabloid
• Meat in cold paper to dispatch all around
• Part of a neck of veal or mutton
• Cut inferior post, having taken over Conservative paper
• From neck, hang until death
• Lean piece of veal or mutton
• Inferior mutton
• Inferior piece of mutton
• Scared - no good may come of stewing this mutton
• Self-contained garden processed cheap meat