29-05-2025
How Britain can avoid becoming an island of strangers
There's a street in Leicester where nearly half the residents don't speak English to a decent level. Ben Leo of GB News recently went there to explore what that meant in practice. True to the statistics, almost nobody could speak English well enough to have a conversation, from a middle-aged Portuguese man to the Indian father who admitted to not being able to speak the language after a decade here. The only flag to be found flying there was Palestine's, whilst the local advertising billboards were for One Nation, an Islamic charity from Batley in West Yorkshire. In the end, Leo had to, in his words, 'scarper' after a local got upset with them filming.
This reveals the scale of the challenge facing Britain when it comes to immigration. Although net migration dropped to 431,000 in 2024, a 50 per cent reduction on the year before, that still means higher levels than before Brexit.
