This week we heard the previous PM Boris Johnson, say that when he was Mayor of London there were second and third generation Bangladesh children who could not speak English. Nothing could be further from the truth, given all of them would have attend primary and secondary school in the UK.

Boris Johnson was quoted as saying on the Telegraph TV channel “When I was running London it was disgraceful. There were parts of London where the Bangladeshi community, second or third generation were not speaking English, that was insane” 

The actual reality is that Bangladesh kids are been excelling themselves academically for a number of years now, as the Bangladesh High Commission annual awards for Academic achievement illustrate well. Since 2006, they have been running Outstanding Achievement Award: Since 2006, where the High Commission has annually recognised British-Bangladeshi students for outstanding GCSE and A-Level results. To be eligible, students must be of Bangladeshi origin and have achieved a minimum of 10 “A” grades at GCSE and/or 3 “A” grades at A-level and annually they would find around 100 girls and boys passing with such high colours. 

It should also be explained to him, that when he was Mayor of London he did not have any educational responsibilities, so it’s not quite clear how such info could have been made available to him at all.  He’s quite clearly losing it since being out of power now.