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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

St George’s Day row: Nottingham councillor’s remarks ignite debate over patron saint history

A Nottingham city councillor has sparked fresh debate on St George's Day by pointing out what historians have long noted but politicians rarely say aloud: the patron saint of England had no natural connection to England at all.

Kirsty L Jones, a Nottingham People's Alliance councillor, told GB News that St George was "born in Palestine to a Palestinian mother and a Syrian father, spent most of his life in Syria and then was killed in Palestine."

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