Peter Mandelson urged Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party to redesignate as unionists at Stormont in 1999 to facilitate the formation of a powersharing government, declassified papers have revealed.But the party rejected the then secretary of state's suggestion, with one MLA demanding to know if he would ask Sinn Fein to switch from nationalist to unionist.
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