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International Business Times UK
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Jujemay Awit

Should I Be Deported? Mixed-Race MP Challenges Lowe's Definition of 'Englishness' in Immigration Debate

Mixed-race MP Ben Obese-Jecty questions Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe's definition of Englishness: Should I be deported? (Credit: Instagram/@benobesejecty)

Right-wingers may unite in opposing Andy Burnham and the current government, but they have different views on what it means to be English. Reform UK's Nigel Farage said it is an 'academic debate', but Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe said that 'the English are a historic people'.

'Englishness is NOT an academic debate,' Lowe said on social media.

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