Communities secretary promises to expand teaching as he speaks of experiencing racist abuseSajid Javid has revealed that 770000 people living in England speak hardly any or no English,in a personal interview in which he described his own experience as a “six-year-outmoded interpreter” for his Pakistani mother.
The communities secretary promised to expand the teaching of English for immigrants as he warned that up to 70% of those unable to speak the language were women, and most of them were from Pakistani or Bangladeshi communities.
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Source: guardian.co.uk