The English are feeling more English and increasingly less British, report claims - UK News | Online Newspaper | The Irish Times - Wed, Jul 10, 2013

The English are feeling more English and increasingly less British, report claims - UK News | Online Newspaper | The Irish Times - Wed, Jul 10, 2013: "More than a third, or 35 per cent, place their English identity before any sense of Britishness, while just one-in-10 claims “to be more British than English”.
“What has emerged is a different kind of Anglo-British identity in which the ‘Anglo’ component is increasingly considered the primary source of identity,” says the report.
The intensification of feelings about identity in England is being fuelled by a sense of grievance by, for example, a feeling that the Scots get more than their fair share of tax revenues.
Devolution has had its impact, too – not so much about the greater self-government enjoyed by the fringe, but rather the ability of the fringe’s MPs to vote “on English laws” in the House of Commons."

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