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English deficit causes more harm than the digital divide

David Cameron last week highlighted the disadvantage immigrants in Britain suffer when they cannot speak English.

He pointed to the 190,000 Muslim women who could not speak the language. Although the government denied it planned to deport non-English speakers, it said their language skills would be “taken into account” when they requested visa extensions.

The UK prime minister linked failure to learn English with the “slide towards radicalisation and extremism”. He is wrong about that. The people who join extremist groups usually speak perfect English. But he is right about the economic damage that lack of fluent English brings.

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