From the article:
“He wouldn’t allow either his unskilled father or his non-English-speaking mother entry today.
‘The biggest block to good community cohesion is English. We should have set a requirement that if you want to settle in the UK, you should be able to speak fluent English. We should have done that ages ago.’”
Me to Sajid Javid:
Sajid, would your parents speaking English have stopped the skinheads and racism your family faced?
Surely your parents’ story demonstrates that arriving unskilled or without English does not mean people will remain unskilled forever, never learn English, or never embrace British values and culture.
If your parents had not been allowed into the country, you would not have been able to make the contributions you have made – unless you believe those contributions are of no value.
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First dropped: | Last modified: January 26, 2026