Britons need to see themselves as a single nation, says Security Minister

by Duncan Gardham
Telegraph
April 1, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1267/britons-need-to-see-themselves-as-a-single-nation

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Baroness Neville-Jones told the Daily Telegraph that that at the same time the government need to persuade the majority of the population that the UK is a single nation.

The minister said there needed to be a new approach in which people did not simply "rub along together and as long as people obey the law that's quite sufficient."

"I think it's a common experience now that we know less about each other than we used to and I think there's a very strong feeling that we need to understand each other and we need to be working together as a nation," Lady Neville-Jones added.

"[We are] trying to convince minorities in this country that they actually do have a long term future here and that it's their country as much as anybody else's," she said in an interview.

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