Transcript of Interview with David Cameron: BBC Today Programme, 18/01/2016. Interviewer Sarah Montague.
This is a transcript I've done of the first part of the interview which relates to language testing of applicants for spousal visas. Please feel free to use this for research, but do tell me you find any proofing/transcription errors. Whole interview is here: https://youtu.be/Ukz7s_eGQK8 MONTAGUE: Let’s stort [sic] start on this question of language. How are you proposing that this could work? How do you find out which Muslim women are not fluent and go about, what, forcing them to learn English? CAMERON: What we’ve been doing is, er, getting-going round communities and trying to look at the level of segregation and the problems that there are, and the statistics are clear, that there are thirty eight thousand Muslim women who really don’t speak hardly any English at all, and perhaps as many as a hundred and ninety thousand who speak it very badly. And this is about building a more integrated, cohesive, one-nation country where there’s genuine opportunity for people because of...