Fewer than half of people in England and Wales identify as Christian, according to census data released on Tuesday, underlining a landmark shift towards secularism in multicultural Britain.
The findings from the 10-yearly census, carried out in 2021, came just over a month after Rishi Sunak became Britain's first Hindu prime minister.
But he said that, facing a cost-of-living crisis and war in Europe, people still needed spiritual sustenance. Those included government backing for religious schools and for the established Church of England, its chief executive Andrew Copson said. "No religion" rose by 12 points to 37.2 percent or 22.2 million, while Muslims stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the population, up from 4.9 percent before.Sunak's spokesperson told reporters in response to the census:
The former finance minister's grandparents hailed from Punjab in northern India and emigrated to Britain from eastern Africa in the 1960s.
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