Britain wants immigrants to learn to speak English

Britain should be doing more to encourage people living in the United Kingdom to learn and speak English, said Sajid Javid, the nation's secretary of state for housing, communities and local government.

Javid, whose parents moved to the UK from Pakistan, talked in interviews with the Guardian newspaper and the BBC on Wednesday about having to translate for his mother when he was a 6-year-old child when she made visits to her doctor.

"We estimate that there (are) 770,000 people that live in (England) that speak hardly any or no English," he told the Guardian.