GETTY The surge in right-wing supporters has encouraged people to feel English than British

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The statistics released by YouGov revealed the amount of people describing themselves as English rather than British has risen by five per cent since 2015, now amounting to whopping 19 per cent of Britons.

John Denham – a former Labour cabinet minister who led the study – admitted there is a growing correlation between identity and political behaviour. Also the head of Winchester University’s Centre for English and Identity Politics, Mr Denham said: “Voters who most strongly identify as English are much more likely to reject Labour as a party and key Labour messages, like support for the EU. “Without a change in Labour’s appeal, rising English identity may make attracting key groups of voters even harder.”

Although the YouGov poll showed an increase in people calling themselves English, the results also presented an astonishing 38 per cent of people felt they were equally as British as they were English. Eager to capitalise on the growing sense of patriotism, Paul Nutall said he aimed to appeal to the sense of Englishness shortly after his election vote.

GETTY John Denham, the former Labour cabinet minister who led the research

He said: “The next big issue that’s going to come up in British politics beyond Brexit is Englishness. “There is a value that unites the vast majority of British people away from the small metropolitan clique, and that value is patriotism.”

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But the amount of people calling themselves British closely followed the English patriotism as 18 per cent said they will always be British. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader attempted to appeal to patriotism, as he said he was not “wedded” to the principle of EU free movement.

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