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Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill

Of course, we all value society. The right hon. Lady may know of the Cobden society. We gleefully reproduce Cobden's words:"““Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with one another and the government less.””" That is precisely the point: when the people have more to do with one another and the Government less. I fear that we are here today to discuss how the Government can have more to do with creating a strategy for that most delicate system of relationships—human social co-operation. Of course, we all value relationships and society, but we differ—it is a fine point, but probably the one about which we have argued most sincerely for more than 100 years—about the extent to which state power should be used to intervene in the dynamic process that is social co-operation. It seems to me that we have moved on—