Ed Miliband confused?

Guy Aitchison: I went to the May Day Involve seminar to hear Ed Miliband, now Minister for the Third Sector, talk about citizenship. He said that the 1945 Labour government had made people citizens in a progressive but “passive… one-way relationship”. People continue to want the state to play a role, he claimed. However, they also want to be active in setting the terms, he gave Make Poverty History as an example. Someone from the Power Enquiry asked how this related to Gordon Brown’s catch phrase, the need for a new constitutional settlement. Miliband’s reply was pretty confused. He ended up saying what was needed was more parliamentary sovereignty. He clearly needs to read Pam Giddy in the Independent.