London - This month, Boris Johnson, the pro-Brexit human juggernaut who is likely to become the next prime minister of Britain, declared that British immigrants should be required to learn English. In some parts of the country, he complained, `English is not spoken by some people as their first language.` This naturally upset many Britons, including those in Wales who speak Welsh and those in Scotland who speak Gaelic. It also upset Johnson´s sister, Rachel, in a manner peculiar to the competitive, tight-knit, look-at-me Johnson clan, which holds a place in British life somewhere in the large, amorphous space between the Kennedys and the Kardashians. Like her youngest brother and her father,...
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