Under the Cameron-Clegg coalition government, with Ed Miliband leading the Labour Party, Rowan Williams caused a stir with this calmly impassioned leader. The then Archbishop of Canterbury was alarmed by the government’s reforms of education and health and was concerned that the public and the legislature were unconnected. His solution was not state paternalism but the version of community suggested by theology – that is, “building the ability of the other person or group to become, in turn, a giver of life and responsibility”.
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