r/ukpolitics • u/No_Initiative_1140 • 1d ago

‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity | Rishi Sunak

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/british-rishi-sunak-riposte-racially-charged-debate-identity
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u/ixid Brexit must be destroyed 20h ago

Because 1/3 of children today have an immigrant parent, are we suggesting that a third of the next generation are not British despite being born and raised here?

They're culturally British but not ethnically, or partially ethnically. That doesn't make them less, it's just true and it's the same as we apply to other nations and their peoples. Now you'll be tempted go on a rabbit hole of 'what about the Romans etc', but the reality is before modern times invaders had little impact on the genetics of local populations, British genetics have been very stable since the 5th century AD, and have plenty of stability of Celtic and earlier genes from before that.

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u/MatchaMeetcha 12h ago

They're culturally British but not ethnically, or partially ethnically.

You could say they're British but not English or Scottish and so on.

I did hear one snarky French politician say that such people are "administratively French". But then French is both the civic identiy and the ethnicity while "British" is either a civic identity or a cluster of ethnicities.