If there is a ‘native’ language of Britain, Boris Johnson, it certainly isn’t English

Boris Johnson before a hustings event with leadership rival Jeremy Hunt in Cardiff on 6 July 2019. David Metcalfe points out that Welsh was being spoken in these islands before English ever was.Photograph: ReutersYou reported Boris Johnson saying at a hustings event for the Conservative leadership race that he wanted “everybody who comes here and makes their lives here to be, and to feel, British – that’s the most important thing – and to learn English” (Johnson ple