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FEWER people see themselves as English in Dudley than before the 2016 EU referendum, according to a national survey, while more are identifying as…

While seven in ten said they were English in the last census, that will flip this time round as 'British' now comes first on the tick-box list." Over the same period, the proportion of people identifying as British increased from 44 per cent to 58 per cent – meaning Dudley's residents are now more likely to see themselves as British than English. In the year to June 2016, in the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, 60 per cent of residents surveyed in Dudley said that they identify as English - but this fell to 56 per cent in the year to December 2021.