Archbishop of York calls for new vision of what it means to be English

Stephen Cottrell says it is time to rediscover a national unity more fractured than I have ever known it'

The archbishop of York has called for a new expansive" vision of what it means to be English to counter a negative political discourse and a hopeless future".

Courage and compassion should be the cornerstones of an Englishness that people could be proud of, said Stephen Cottrell, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England.