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MP under pressure over his claim that it’s “almost a rarity” to hear people speaking English in the UK last night.conference in Manchester earlier this month. and said it is “not xenophobic” to want town centres not to feel like a “foreign country”.He replied: “If you walk into your town centre, you’re hearing people speaking English is almost a rarity.”
Ridge hit back: “That’s not what people find, come on – 88% of people in Ipswich have English as their main language.”also concluded from the 2021 Census that 91.1% of usual residents aged three and over had English as their main language.He claimed “lots of people feel that way,” adding: “I think there are examples where there’s a lack of integration.”He said “diversity was a force for good”, but problems arise when people don’t “make the effort” to integrate.
Hunt continued: “If you have people in your town centre, your city centre, who are behaving in a way that isn’t in keeping with what people would expect from that area.”Further pressed by Ridge, Hunt suggested not speaking English was just one example that there is not enough integration.So Ridge asked for the data to back his claims up.As Ridge continued to ask for evidence to support his theory, Hunt said: “Every single shop we went to said that.
Conservative MP Tom Hunt,"If you walk into your town center, people speaking English is almost a rarity"‘Not Xenophobic’ To Want Town Centres Not To Feel ‘Foreign’, Says Tory MPHuffPost UK Daily Brief Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our
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