THE majority of people identifying as “British only” in last year’s English census has been put down to a change in how the question was set out, creating a “public misconception”.
Political experts professors Ailsa Henderson and John Denham have both argued in an essay that an alteration in the way the identity question was presented significantly contributed to an increase in people identifying as British over English.
They have warned it could quickly become a “public misconception” when measures of national identity have “real-world importance”.
