Ed Miliband under fire – but does he have public on side?

And whatever happened to David Cameron’s view that tax avoiders needed to wake up and smell the coffee?

The Mole

Ed Miliband believes he is onto a winner in attacking big business tax avoiders - even if it is drawing fire from business leaders.

He believes he has the public on his side after it was revealed that the head of Boots, who warned that a Labour win on 7 May would be a “catastrophe”, was a tax exile in Monaco and that Boots’ parent company has been the target of tax avoidance campaigners.

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