Narrating One Nation:   The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

Judi Atkins

doi:10.1111/1467-9256.12076

Narrating One Nation: The Ideology and Rhetoric of the Miliband Labour Party

Judi Atkins

School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Speaking at the 2012 Labour Party Conference, Ed Miliband set out his vision of ‘One Nation’. This article maps the core concepts of Labour's ideology and identifies the narratives used to argue for One Nation social security reform. It locates these narratives within Labour's traditions and demonstrates that they coalesce in the leadership persona of Miliband himself. Though an attempt to respond to a populist ‘rhetorical culture’, the article contends that this strategy has created a self‐enclosed ideology that cannot conceive of an audience beyond itself. Labour therefore needs to overcome this solipsism if it is to secure victory in 2015.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-31
Journal	Politics
Volume	35
Issue number	1
Early online date	23 Sept 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12076
Publication status	Published - Feb 2015

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Atkins, J. (2015), Ideology, Rhetoric and One Nation Labour. Politics, 35: 19-31, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12076. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Atkins, J. (2015), Ideology, Rhetoric and One Nation Labour. Politics, 35: 19-31, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12076. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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