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Article: Brown's Britishness plea falls on deaf ears SURVEY: NATIONAL IDENTITY SURVEY: NATIONAL IDENTITY Poll shows only 3-per cent of Scots and 13-per cent of English say they're British
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- The Sunday Herald
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- January 20, 2008
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FEWER people in Scotland and England than ever before say that
they are British, according to the findings of a new social
attitudes report.
The survey has found that 13-per cent of those born and living in
England and just 3-per cent of Scots describe themselves as "only"
or "mainly" British. The declining sense of Britishness is
particularly acute in England, where there has been a steep rise in
national identity.
The findings, which are contained in a British Social Attitudes
Report to be published on Wednesday, look like a blow to the
attempts of the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to put Britishness at