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Thus, perhaps against expectations, it would seem that ethnic minority participants (except for black Africans) who lived in England were the ones who most strongly identified themselves as British. However, their identification, as with all other social groups, was not exclusively with Britain: it also drew on other ‘memberships’.
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They have a point. "English" is defined ethnically: no African or Pakistani can ever be "English"; however that person can be a citizen of an increasingly multicultural state that isn't ethnically defined and support that state for the (limited) protections and rights it affords. Especially as most of these people have come from failed or failing states and hence are more keenly appreciative of what's on offer than those like me who've had it their whole lives.
That doesn't make the influx right, of course, but I'm explaining the logic (as I see it) from their point of view.