18-05-2025
Britons feel detached from society and distrustful of strangers
Britons feel disconnected from society, wary of other people and worried about community tensions, according to a survey.
A poll of more than 13,000 British adults found that 50 per cent said they felt disengaged and 44 per cent said that they sometimes felt like a stranger in their own country.
Sir Keir Starmer argued last week that Britain risked becoming an 'island of strangers' if immigration numbers did not decrease.
The poll by the organisation More In Common suggested, however, that the reasons for feelings of detachment went beyond immigration and culture.
It found that 47 per cent of British Asians felt like a stranger in their country compared with 44 per cent of white Britons.
Economic insecurity was most closely related to alienation,
