Luckily Mrs T regards herself as British. Otherwise, she might have struggled with this NHS registration form today.

Alongside an eclectic selection of other nationalities, she could have registered her Englishness, Welshness, Cornishness, Northern Irishness and Irishness… but not her Scottishness.

I don’t think, however, that treatment is affected by which box you tick, or by the accuracy of that tick. Which is probably just as well.

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