Cross-party MPs led by the Liberal Democrat Josh Babarinde, with backing from David Lammy, James Cleverly and others, are tabling a bill to let census respondents of every ethnic group identify as English, a riposte to Suella Braverman's claim that Englishness is an ethnicity she does not share because of her south Asian heritage. The MPs say the current census, which offers English only within the White category, means most of England's World Cup squad would not technically count as English.