Jonathan Sacerdoti

You know, my father was Italian as a Holocaust survivor.

He lived in Italy as a child.

He moved here as an adult when he married my mother.

My mother was born here.

Her mother was born here.

Her father emigrated here.

So I do come from immigrants.

But I grew up very British.

I sound quite British, I think.

I think I look quite British.

I think I have a pretty British life.

My values are British.

My tastes in many ways are British.

But I'm also a bit Italian and I'm also a bit Jewish.

I'm all of these things at once.

And I think that is the Britain that I think immigrants must be keen to respect and preserve.

Part of that Britishness is a sense of welcome to others, but not others who will destroy the country or take it over.

or warp it or go against its values but i don't think that jews really on the whole have done that i don't think we've tried to do that historically i don't think we're trying to do it now so i think to try and force people to make a a list a hierarchy when there isn't one there you know i am british and i'm jewish there is no contradiction in those things they are layers

They are threads in a tapestry of who I am.

I'm 100% British and I'm 100% Jewish.