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More or Less: Behind the Stats

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How Much Do You Think You're British?

Do you think there is a sensible answer to the question, what proportion of people in the UK think they're British versus think they're English? We've been running a survey since 2011 that seeks to get at precisely that. If you ask the same question as was asked on the census, if you give people a list and you say, pick any that apply, then roughly what we're getting is around a third would say that they're British only. Around one in five would say that They are British and English. There's some bouncing around of those numbers over time, but those are fairly stable proportions in the English electorate. That's all we have time for, but please keep your questions

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