ENGLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM

Early day motion 1319, tabled 20 April 2007 by Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 24 members.

That this House believes that it is time that England, when competing as England rather than as Great Britain or the United Kingdom, should adopt an appropriate song to be the English national anthem, in the same way that Scotland and Wales do when they compete as individual nations; further believes that it is quite wrong that England use the British national anthem when competing as England rather than as Great Britain or the United Kingdom, particularly when playing the other home nations who also have God Save the Queen as their British national anthem; and therefore believes that all English sporting associations should adopt an appropriate song that English sportsmen and women, and the English public, would favour when competing as England.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 11, Labour 7, Conservative 5, Plaid Cymru 1.