The deeply contentious debate around what it means to be English

Badenoch took issue with Matt Goodwin's stress on ethnicity as the key factor in defining Englishness. The Conservative leader, who was born in England to Nigerian parents, said: "How we define Englishness, in my view, is very complicated. There are two sides to it. There is a side that is down to ancestry, ethnicity, your parents being from here perhaps for hundreds, if not thousands of years. And there's another side of it, which is civic, which is about the culture, which is about the values, the behaviours, the norms, the commitments to place. And I think those two things go side by side."