By Bagehot
THE Tory tabloids are still seething about what they are calling the “pasty tax”, or George Osborne’s decision to end the VAT exemption on sausage rolls, pasties, freshly roasted chickens and the like that are sold hot over shop counters or in supermarkets, for munching elsewhere. The Sun devotes two pages to the question and a leader, and links to a petition got up by the National Association of Master Bakers, demanding that the tax break be re-instated.
