Even Jacob Rees-Mogg pushes back on defining Englishness in exclusively ethnic terms. But the endurance of this discourse is still deeply troubling Can you be English and non-white? It’s a question that keeps stubbornly resurfacing in our political discourse.

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/26/sunak-definition-britishness-englishness-ethnonationalism)

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