Newcomers should be expected to identify with our country - that starts with learning our language, says Matt Goodwin

Matthew Goodwin reacts to official statistics revealing nearly one million people in Britain do not speak English

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Matthew Goodwin

By Matthew Goodwin


Published: 05/03/2025

- 21:43

Nearly 1 million people in our country cannot speak English

Now yet another shocking discovery in Britain. Get this.

Nearly 1 million people in our country cannot speak English.


  • According to official statistics, 10 percent of residents who were born overseas struggle with the English language.

    Now, I don’t know about you but I think that speaking the national language is the least we need to have an integrated, prosperous nation.

    Matt Goodwin

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    In many local areas in this country, as I showed this week using detailed information from the census, integration is simply not happening.

    Take, for example, the area of St Matthews and Highfields in Leicester. In this area, more than 80 per cent of people who are living in social housing were born outside the UK, of whom only around half (52 per cent) are currently in work.

    According to the latest census, only 43 per cent of people who live here were born in the UK. A larger number of people in this area were born in the Middle East or Asia (51 per cent), than in the UK. Three-quarters of residents here are Muslim.

    Shockingly, more than four in ten people here live in households that contain no adults who speak English as their main language.

    Consider consider the area of Tokyngton or Monks Park near Wembley Stadium. In this local area nearly 73 per cent of people in social housing were born outside the UK, of whom only 43 per cent are in work.

    Fully 35 per cent of people here, more than one in three, refuse to identify with a British or English identity and instead choose a ‘non-UK identity only’ while fully a e quarter of people here live in households that contain no adults who speak English as their main language.

    Capitulation. Labour’s plan is to acquiesce and surrender to this phenomenon. The Labour Party’s Tower Hamlets office has, in big letters on its facade, Somali and Bengali translations.

    You may think ghettoisation is a natural phenomenon that comes along with mass migration, but our leaders have actively encouraged it.

    It’s time we prioritised people from this country when distributing scarce social resources. Newcomers should be expected to work and pay tax. And they should also be expected to identify with our country - that starts with, at the bare minimum, learning our language.