Proposals for a national anthem for England

The national anthem of England is usually taken to be the same as that of the United Kingdom as a whole—"God Save the Queen", but some feel that England should have its own distinct anthem, and there are a number of songs which may fulfil a similar role. Alternatives to "God Save the Queen" have been used for England teams at sporting events. There have been discussions on the subject in the UK Parliament. Several candidate songs have been discussed, including Blake's "Jerusalem", and A. C. Benson's "Land of Hope and Glory".

At present, the following anthems are used:

On 20 April 2007, Greg Mulholland, the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West, introduced an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons, proposing that England have its own national anthem. The EDM called for all English sporting associations to "adopt an appropriate song that English sportsmen and women, and the English public, would favour when competing as England." There has also been an EDM calling for "Jerusalem" to be given official status as the national anthem of England, proposed by Daniel Kawczynski, the Conservative Party MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham on 18 October 2006.

In April 2008, Mulholland called for the England national rugby league team to replace God Save the Queen with an English national anthem at the Rugby League World Cup to be held in Australia in autumn 2008 and on 28 April he put forward another EDM in the House of Commons, noting that Scotland and Wales who were also taking part in the World Cup, would also have their own national anthems, and therefore calling on England to use an distinctive English anthem, with the proposal that English rugby league fans should be given the chance to choose this. However, '"God Save the Queen" was used.

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