The row over the introduction of VAT on hot snacks is a gift for papers' headline writers. The Sun splashes with "half-baked", with the subhead "PM's bid to take heat out of pasty row is hard to swallow". Inside, there is more fun, with a spread headlined "PM pasty 'pork pie' probe". The Mirror opts to put the fuel crisis on the front, but a sidebar inside details "Pasty PM's porky pies". The Times saves the puns for its page three sketch, headed "Dave tries to play catch-up but it's all pie in the sky as Mr Pasty tells a porky". The Daily Telegraph opts for "Oh crumbs … PM's trial by pasty", while the Guardian asks "Who ate all the pies?" No signs yet of the heat going out of the debate.
