Starbucks has not been singled out for criticism over tax, a senior Tory insisted yesterday after the firm reportedly threatened to abandon UK investment plans.
Kris Engskov, the firm's UK managing director, demanded urgent talks at Downing Street after Prime Minister David Cameron took a thinly veiled swipe at the coffee giant.
In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos in which he promised to lead global action against tax avoidance, Mr Cameron said it was time for businesses to "wake up and smell the coffee" about public anger.
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