Of course you can be English if you’re not white. So why can’t the right leave the question alone? | Jason Okundaye

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Of course you can be English if you’re not white. So why can’t the right leave the question alone? | Jason Okundaye

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. Last weekend, the former prime minister Rishi Sunak gave his view in a column in the Times, arguing that national identity should not be turned into a DNA test…