The Chancellor’s call at yesterday’s Fabian Society conference for a celebration of Britishness should be cautiously welcomed by patriotic progressives. In an impassioned speech, he made the case for recapturing the union flag as a ‘British symbol of unity, tolerance and inclusion’. But despite his best intentions, it is not supranational identities which Britons want to cling to, rather, the more particular identities of Wales, Scotland and, increasingly, England. for more click here
