More people in Dorset describe themselves as British since the EU referendum
More people across Dorset are identifying as British MORE people across Dorset are identifying as British than before the EU referendum, figures suggest, while fewer say they are English. That’s according to the Office for National Statics Annual Population Survey, which asks a sample of local people how they would describe their national identity. The survey shows 47 per cent of people in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole identified as British in the year to June 2020, up from 34 per cent four years earlier, in the run-up to the EU referendum. But Englishness, while still the mor...