The English Tribe is about the crisis of nation and national identity facing the English – and the British – as we meet the challenges of the global economy and absorption into a federal Europe. It asks: what does it mean to be English – and British – at the very end of the twentieth-century? And it argues that as Britain becomes part of a federal Europe there will be no need for the centralized United Kingdom (monarchy, Westminster and Whitehall) as power is divided upwards to Brussels and downwards to the nations, regions and cities of Britain.