Little at Large: Miliband comes clean over Commons 'poison' incident

By Matthew Little, Third Sector, 21 November 2007

We've all heard the rhetoric about how the embrace of the state can be fatal for third sector endeavour. But one assumes no one was claiming that chief executives and trustees were literally expiring after meetings with ministers in government departments.

Not until now, that is. In a mea culpa on Social Enterprise Day last week, Cabinet Office minister Ed Miliband confessed that he'd managed to "poison" Liam Black, who runs Jamie Oliver's social enterprise restaurant, Fifteen - and Mrs Black too. The culprit wasn't Miliband himself but something they ate...