[27] Some people opted "to combine both identities" as "they felt Scottish or Welsh, but held a British passport and were therefore British", whereas others saw themselves as exclusively Scottish or exclusively Welsh and "felt quite divorced from the British, whom they saw as the English". Yet the last Roman troops left Britain in 407. (We do not know exactly where the battle took place). London has the seat of the UK government and is, therefore, the capital city of the UK.

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