George gets a grilling

The chancellor's choice of Budget snack has whipped up a storm of controversy.

What a man of the people' he is. That's what we were meant to think when the chancellor posted a picture of himself on Twitter putting the finishing touches to his spending review speech alongside a burger and fries. But the stunt backfired. Declaring the incident a "Shamburger!", The Sun denounced Osborne as a fraud the Byron burger with chips and a red onion garnish (cost £9.70) was far too posh, it said.

Too posh? That's news to me, says Jan Moir in the Daily Mail. Actually, Byron's 20 or so high-street outlets are hugely popular and not at all over-priced. "In fact, as Byron is British-owned and serves burgers that are freshly ground every day from Scottish beef, surely this is exactly the sort of burger a chancellor of the exchequer should be eating?"

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