We are losing our country because of how its underlying foundations - a shared identity, a shared language, and a shared set of values - are rapidly crumbling.

That’s my argument in Suicide of a Nation, my new book that’s become one of the biggest-selling books in Britain.

Increasingly, with no unifying sense of who we are, and with a political class that is fuelling rather than fixing these problems, Britain feels more like a hotel than a home.

My critics, of course, disagree strongly.

They say there’s nothing to worry about. Multiculturalism is working just fine. Diversity is our strength.

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As I write in the book, while you’ll never hear about this in Westminster or on the BBC, the fact - from the latest census in 2021 - is that there are now 5.8 million people in Britain who refuse to share a UK, British, or English identity - up from 4.5 million a decade earlier. Nearly one in ten people in England now think this way.

They do not see themselves as a member of the UK, British, or English community but something else entirely, as holding what the census calls a ‘non-UK identity’.

The picture is even more dramatic in particular areas, where thanks to the disastrous policy of mass immigration, there are many large enclaves in the country that are filled with people who refuse to embrace our national identity.

Some people might not think this is worrying. They’ll shrug their shoulders.

But I do think it’s worrying. Because a nation without a strong, unifying sense of identity will eventually cease to be a nation.