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How to integrate immigrants into British society, so that they participate fully in it, sharing and respecting its values? Ray Honeyford first raised it publicly in 1984 .
Immigration from non-EU countries has increased enormously in the last 30 years, many come from what are categorised as ethnic minorities. Labour ministers, dismantled almost all immigration controls, imagined that there would be no problem about integration.
Some of the arriving groups have deep commitments to religious or own views that place women in a subordinate position. Values that most of us would think of as essential elements of being British tolerance, equality before the law, or even the primacy of democratic elections as the way of deciding who should govern – have not been accepted by a significant minority of immigrants.
Some even wish to cut themselves off from liberal and tolerant Britain completely. They hope to perpetuate their own religious values by having their own education system.
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