On the fifth anniversary of the Cornish being recognised as a national minority Cornwall Council and partners are calling on the government to give the Cornish the right to be given the chance to identify themselves as Cornish in the 2021 Census.
Jesse Foot, Cornwall Councillor for St Germans and Landulph and chair of the Cornwall Council led Cornish Minority Working Group, said: ’Whether you identify as Cornish by birth, marriage, ancestry or some other route you have the right to be recognised, for services to be planned, and for funding to be sought on this basis.
’We’ve been working hard with limited resources to raise awareness of the Cornish as a national minority. The UK government has to fulfil its responsibilities so that the Cornish are treated equally with the other Celtic nations.’