Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick clashed with a Sky News presenter as he repeatedly failed to explain what he meant by “English identity”. In an article for the Daily Mail, the former ...

English people increasingly see white skin as irrelevant to their national identity, according to a new study from the Centre for English Identity and Politics and British Future. The analysis, a ...

If few predicted the success of England’s football team, fewer still expected it to spark a new and almost wholly positive debate about English identity. Framed by Gareth Southgate’s observation that ...

How English do you feel? Views from Hackney and Boston Why doesn't England have its own national anthem and why are the English obsessed with tea? These are some of the questions our readers asked ...

The link between the Englishness of low-paid towns and Labour’s electoral challenge is even stronger than Larry Elliott suggests (Opinion, 5 July). Politics has always been about identity. Highly ...

Inspired by a Zadie Smith quote, a new campaign aims to “stretch the flag” of St George. By John Denham It is the English, rather than the British, whose votes are taking us out of the EU. This was ...

It's ironic that in the current Brexit debate it's English, not British, identity that's increasing. The Britishness that unionists in Scotland and Northern Ireland seek to hold onto is increasingly ...