‘What are you other than English?’ Former UK PM Rishi Sunak slams defining Britishness by skin colour

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak/Image: Reuters Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned against equating skin colour with nationality, saying people born and raised in England should not have their English or British identity questioned because they are not white.Writing on X on Sunday, Sunak said his Cowdrey Lecture at the Marylebone Cricket Club on Thursday had prompted him to reflect on cricket's place in British life and the country's debate over identity and integration.Race and British identitySunak said Britain had built a multi-faith, multi-ethnic democracy but warned that this achievement was under strain. He identified immigration and Islamism as challenges, while also highlighting what he described as a growing tendency to associate race with nationality.He pointed to online discussions after he left office questioning whether he was English because he was a "brown Hindu". Sunak described this as a "reverse Tebbit test", in which a person's support for England would no longer determine whether they were accepted as English because their skin colour would disqualify them.He also recalled footage from an election campaign in which someone called him a racial sl...