Labour has been pushing its One Nation branding campaign with quite some gusto in the past few days. Stephen Twigg announced at the weekend that ‘One Nation Childcare’ could include co-operative nurseries, and today Ed Miliband has given a speech on what One Nation means for mental health services, with the party launching a mental health taskforce. As well as trying to drop in as many mentions of the phrase as he could into his speech to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Miliband continued to make direct links with One Nation’s founder, Disraeli. He said:
‘But just as Disraeli was right back in the nineteenth century that we could not build One Nation unless we addressed public health, so it is true today we cannot build One Nation unless we all speak out about mental health. The next Labour government will reform our health service to guarantee that mental health enjoys real equality of status.’
He also took pains to make it clear that tackling the problems that those with mental illness still face would fall ‘as much to organisations like British business and the CBI as it does to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’, adding:
‘In fact, everybody has a part to play.
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