Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
2 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
69/100
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Andy Burnham has hinted he will back a Bill to add 'black English' and 'Asian English' categories to the Census.
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he → hint → Census
The PM said he 'wants' to support the legislation when he was challenged by Lib Dem leader Ed Davey in the Commons this afternoon.
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he → say → Commons
Sir Ed said the move would tackle 'racist' attitudes towards people who were born and raised in England - but denied the right to call themselves English.
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who → say → themselves
Mr Burnham replied: 'I haven't looked at the detail of the Bill but I stand here thinking that I would want to support that Bill, to directly take on the poisonous politics that we have seen from some in this House.'
Reform UK MP Suella Braverman sparked a row recently when she argued that only white people can be English.
Andy Burnham has hinted he will back a Bill to add 'black English' and 'Asian English' categories to the Census
Introducing the English ethnic identity (census particulars) Bill to the Commons yesterday, Lib Dem MP Josh Babarinde called for ethnicity questions on the census to be overhauled with more options, including black English and Asian English.
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questions → reply → English
He said the current situation treats English people with black and Asian heritage as 'marginal', including Conservative former prime minister Rishi Sunak.
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situation → say → Sunak
The 10-Minute Rule Bill is unlikely to proceed unless it gets Government backing.
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it → proceed → backing
It has received some cross-party support, including from Labour's former deputy PM David Lammy.
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It → receive → Lammy
Mr Babarinde also called it the St George's Bill, named after the patron saint of England who, according to tradition, was from modern-day Turkey.
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who → call → Turkey
The Eastbourne MP said: 'Do you have to be white to be English?
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you → say → ?
This St George's Bill says no.
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Bill → say → ?
I have proud Nigerian heritage.
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I → have → heritage
'But my parents and I were born in England, we grew up in England, our home is in England.
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home → bear → England
Yet some voices attempt to reduce Englishness to a skin colour and to a bloodline.
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voices → attempt → bloodline
'Well, if we're going to go down that path, my mum's side of the family has been English for as far back as we have traced.'
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we → go → family
He told MPs that since introducing the Bill, he has received death threats, with one telling him to 'go home while you have the legs and breath to carry you'.
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you → tell → you
He said: 'In the ethnicity question in the census, the only box that says English sits under the white category.
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that → say → category
If you are black, the form offers you black British, if you are Asian
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you → offer → British
, it offers you Asian British – but not English.
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it → offer → British
Now, the same question in the Welsh census offers a Black Welsh category.
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question → offer → category
In Scotland, the census offers Scottish Asian, for example.
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census → offer → example
The PM said he 'wants' to support the legislation when he was challenged by Lib Dem leader Ed Davey in the Commons this afternoon
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he → say → Commons
Yet the best that England offers in our census is a miscellaneous writing box that may as well be the margin.
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that → offer → census
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It is due to return to the Commons on April 23 2027 – St George's Day.
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It → return → April
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