No one mentions One Nation Labour these days. Ed Miliband's effort to rebrand the Labour Party by purloining a phrase from 19th-century Conservatism was always hard to fathom, not least grammatically. Now it is little more than an awkward memory, a piece of mid-term spin briefly trumpeted by a newbie leader keen to cut his own path-which turns out, on the basis of Labour's general-election campaign so far, not to be terribly one nation anything. Labour's early showing in the campaign has been more divisive than unifying, even as its appeal appears less national, due to the party's shrinking support in Scotland and tin ear to the more affluent south, by the day.
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