Almost HALF of Britons sometimes feel they're in 'island of strangers'

Almost half of Britons sometimes feel like a stranger in their own country – with home working and 'failures in integration' to blame.

A shock report has revealed plummeting social cohesion across the country, with half of those questioned saying they felt disconnected from society.

The survey of more than 13,000 adults was carried out just before Sir Keir Starmer provoked controversy by warning that without strict rules on migration 'we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together'.

The research by pollsters More in Common, as part of a major project called This Place Matters, also found that the sense of isolation was not simply because of the UK's changing population.

Asian British people were more likely to feel like strangers in their own country (47 per cent) than white Britons (44 per cent).

Almost HALF of Britons sometimes feel they're in 'island of strangers'

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