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#Johnson bemoaning the fact that many women in the UK can not speak English and this is because of "uncontrolled immigration post #Brexit"

Let's fact-check this.

โ€‹Share of the total female population: Across England and Wales, approximately 1.5% to 1.8% of all women could not speak English well or at all. - 2011 census data

According to UK census data, approximately 0.3% of women can not speak English at all, while an additional 1.5% cannot speak it well. In total, fewer than 2% of women in the UK lack English proficiency. Census data 2021

Scarcely changed over 10 years.

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