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The government quietly ditched its plans to help refugees learn English

Exclusive: Braverman’s attack on immigrants followed government failure to deliver promised strategy to teach English

The government quietly ditched its plans to help refugees learn English
Braverman has claimed that some new arrivals to the UK are refusing to learn English. | WPA Pool / Pool
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Suella Braverman’s attack on immigrants and refugees “not learning the language” came after the government quietly broke its promise to help people learn English, openDemocracy can reveal.

This week both the home secretary and the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, publicly condemned people for not speaking English after arriving in the UK.

But openDemocracy has discovered that the government ditched its 2018 pledge to publish a strategy to “improve our strategic approach to English language provision”.