Ed Miliband will today accuse Alex Salmond of posing a "false choice" between being Scottish or British as he calls on Labour to reclaim pride in English identity.
The Labour leader will say his party for too long has avoided the issue of "Englishness", amid fears of negative connotations and that it could undermine the Union with Scotland.
Mr Miliband will lay out his view of the UK as a place where someone can be both "Scottish and British ...or English and British".
But he will also warn against "narrow nationalism" on both sides of the Border.
Mr Miliband will suggest those in England unconcerned about Scotland leaving the UK, have a "narrow view of identity" which "would mean concern for the unemployed in Scotland does not reach Newcastle or that we in England care less for the pensioner in Edinburgh".
Polls suggest English nationalism is on the rise, alongside a "suspicion" of neighbours like Scotland.
To make the case for Scotland to reject independence, Labour must also "talk about England", Mr Miliband will say in his speech.
Following last weekend's Jubilee celebrations he will also call for a "progressive patriotism".
He will say: "For too long people have believed that to express English identity is to undermine the Union.
"At the same time we have rightly helped express Scottish identity within the Union.
"This does not make sense, you can be proudly Scottish and British as you can be proudly English and British, as I am."
He will also accuse the SNP of setting out a false choice between being either British or Scottish, adding "I say you can be both".
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