A study has found that the number of people in England who would now describe themselves as English rather than British rose to 63%, as opposed to 41% in 2008

The YouGov poll also discovered that just 20% of the population of Britain preferred a British identity to any other, down from 42% three years ago. The poll appears to show that English nationalism is on the rise at the same time as Scottish nationalism is the predominant force in politics in Scotland. The findings were seized on by campaigners for a separate English Parliament as further evidence that there was now a major social shift developing across the country.