David Cameron and Nick Clegg will be trying to patch up their differences over the Tories' "big society" plans for government when they discuss them around the Cabinet table today.
The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister will underscore their commitment to the civil society agenda at a Number 10 meeting with community leaders from around the country.
But the "big society" idea - central to Mr Cameron's election campaign - was savaged by Liberal Democrat Mr Clegg less than a fortnight before they formed the coalition government.
In one pre-election interview, on May 2, Mr Clegg said: "What is this big society? It is a big society with a price tag attached.
"It's a bit like inviting someone to a party in a pub and find that it's your card behind the bar paying for everyone's drinks.
"What is emerging is what has always been there, which is a well-oiled PR machine, but basically it's disguising fake change. It's hollow. There's nothing in it."
Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg, joined also by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and minister for civil society Nick Hurd, will be unveiling the Government's policies on empowering communities.
The event, coming within seven days of the Tory-Lib Dem government's inception, is designed to show how central the "big society" will be to the administration.
They will explain exactly what they mean by civil society and the concrete actions they will take.
The plans will be contained in a new document which will essentially form the first chapter of a fuller statement of the Government's objectives.
During the election campaign, Mr Cameron called for the "big society" to take over from Labour's "big government".
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It was a concept that some Tories struggled to explain on the doorsteps and there was concern that it had failed to give the party the traction it needed in the weeks before polling day.
Mr Cameron said it was about ordinary people being given the chance to exercise responsibility in taking decisions on their own lives.
He said the "active participation" of Britain's people would be needed to overcome the country's economic, social and political problems.
Today's discussions on the subject will follow a meeting of the Cabinet this morning, only the second such gathering of the coalition government.
