Miliband comes out swinging

After being mostly absent in an embarrassing week, which culminates in today’s Sun headline of ‘Block Ed’ referring to the Labour leader’s Twitter gaffe yesterday, Ed Miliband has emerged with a self-assured interview in the Guardian. In parts, he is even boastful. Miliband declares himself ‘someone of real steel and grit’ and brags ‘I am the guy who took on Murdoch… I am the guy that said the rules of capitalism as played in the last 30 years have got to change’.

He claims – contrary to Maurice Glasman’s criticism this week – to have ‘a very clear plan’ about what needs to change in Britain. And what is it exactly? Ed says it hinges on ‘responsible capitalism’, which incorporates his big themes of ‘the squeezed middle, young people and the next generation, responsibility at the top and at the bottom’. And here he thinks he has the edge on the Prime Minister:

‘Does anyone really believe David Cameron came into politics to create a more responsible capitalism? The public are not going to buy it…  It is totally implausible for Cameron to be the architect of responsible capitalism.