Video: Political pasties heat-up tax debate The Labour leader Ed Miliband then tried to heat up the debate about the Tory tax by eating one himself in front of customers. Not just fuel duty going up, child benefit taken away, tax credits being cut, now even putting 20 percent on the cost of pasties, sausage rolls, and the Chancellor's excuse? Well, he says you can buy them cold and you can avoid the tax, Mr Miliband said. "It's not fair and it's out of touch with the vast majority of people in this country," he added. Meanwhile, Greggs CEO Kennedy McMeikan asked the Chancellor to visit a branch of Greggs and see why the "pasty tax" would be difficult to enforce. Mr McMeikan called Mr Osborne "out-of-touch" for admitting to the Treasury Select Committee that he could not remember the last time he ate a pasty from Greggs.