French finance minister blasts UK's £130m Google tax deal

Michel Sapin's comments add pressure to European commission to launch investigation into settlement

Pressure is mounting on the European commission to launch a full state aid investigation into the UK's 130m tax settlement with Google after France's finance minister attacked the deal.

Michel Sapin said HMRC's settlement, which allows Google to continue booking 5bn of UK sales via Ireland, "seems more the product of a negotiation than the application of the law".