Ed Miliband must give up his love of state intervention | Simon Jenkins

The Labour leader's stance on AstraZeneca is beyond silly. He needs a route map to cash in on the coalition's chaos

Ed Miliband is opposed to the Pfizer takeover of AstraZeneca. I do not recall if in 1999 he also opposed Zeneca's takeover of Sweden's Astra or the location of its US operation to low-tax Delaware. But with a slump in his poll rating and 64% of Britons reportedly against the Pfizer deal, chauvinism clearly trumped free trade, and to hell with hypocrisy.

The ideological mood of Mil...