In the late 1990s, Mr Howard adroitly saw off a xenophobic challenge from Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.

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Mr Miliband rejected suggestions the result was a major setback to his plan to make Labour a One Nation party but he said his strategy of seeking to broaden its appeal was the correct one.

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For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?

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William Hague has hit back at Labour leader Ed Miliband's attempt to snatch the mantle of the "one nation" party from the Conservatives.

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Mr Blunkett, a close ally of Mr Blair, argues in an article for the Observer that Mr Miliband's stated aim of making Labour a "one-nation party" should be "about a great deal more than politics built on grievance and the unhappiness of a resentful and selfish public sphere".

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has said a speech in which he promised his was the true "one-nation" party got "under the skin" of the Conservatives.

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He knew Ed Miliband had moved to steal his party's claim to be the party of One Nation, so he responded with a claim to be the party of aspiration.

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Australia 's centre-right government, which faces a federal election this year, saw its supporters battered in a Queensland state election, as voters switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation anti-immigration party.

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Labour, he said, was a party not of one nation, but of one notion, namely borrowing more to try to stimulate the economy, a notion that the prime minister claimed was a massive gamble that would lead to higher interest rates.

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When we vote for one party or the other party, we collectively decide which direction the nation should be headed. 2010 was an off-year, but the aggregate effect of all the House races was to put in office a huge majority of Republicans who had signed the Americans for Tax Reform tax pledge.

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"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.

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