As the prime-minister-in-waiting ponders the nature of British identity, the New Statesman commissioned the award-winning photographer Nick Danziger to take a portrait of the nation Gordon Brown will soon be leading. The pictures were shot last month in Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and London.

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