One of the more interesting responses I had to Ed Miliband’s speech was that it also said Britain has a broken society. The difference is that while Ed M pointedly said he did not want to dismiss parts of society as ‘sick’ and focused instead on how ‘vested interests’ were making life harder for Britons.

In today’s Sun, David Laws has an op-ed urging Liberal Democrats to resist becoming an internal opposition, and instead maintain our role as “constructive front-seat drivers”, tackling the country’s economic and social problems. Here’s a sample of what David has to say: In its first year, the Coalition focus was on unity — agreeing an

Tony Blair today attacked claims that this summer's riots were fuelled by "moral decline" and warned that talk of a broken society risked damaging Britain's reputation.

Our society really is big. And it suffers from no lack of definition. It’s a big society. It’s a broken society. It’s a big and broken society. The big society needs to save our broken society. There is such a thing as society, but it’s not the same as the state. And once, there was

Prime Minister pledges to put "broken society" back at the top of his political agenda and declares "a concerted, all-out war on gangs and gang culture."

When events like last week’s riots and looting occur, we assume that something that was previously working must now be badly broken. What has changed in the last few years that has brought the rioters and looters onto the streets? Government cuts? MPs expenses? Greedy bankers? Broken society? Maybe. Or perhaps there’s less need to

Prime Minister pledges to put "broken society" back at the top of his political agenda and declares "a concerted, all-out war on gangs and gang culture."

Prime Minister pledges to put "broken society" back at the top of his political agenda and declares "a concerted, all-out war on gangs and gang culture."

After the biggest crisis of his premiership David Cameron talks about how to fix a broken society.

The Tories have strong ideas about social justice; the time is ripe to put them into practice .