
Daily Record, Thursday 29 March 2012
Queues grew at forecourts around the country yesterday as news spread of the Tories’ warnings over a threatened tanker drivers’ strike. No strike has been called and talks are planned, but there were fears that [David] Cameron and [Francis] Maude had started a wave of panic-buying that would be hard to control.
Daily Record, Thursday 29 March 2012
David Cameron claimed he loved to scoff a humble Cornish pasty yesterday as he tried to justify the Tories’ move to slap VAT on hot pies. But within hours, aides had to admit that the shop where he claimed to have bought his last pasty closed five years ago…Labour leader Ed Miliband seized on Cameron’s discomfort by visiting a branch of Greggs with Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves. They left with a £4.70 bag of sausage rolls.