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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: English lessons, civil partnerships, the price of oil

Plus: junior doctors, Burkino Faso, Jakarta, drug trials

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that Muslim women must learn English, and that those who had entered on spousal visas would be told halfway through their five-year spousal settlement: ‘You can’t guarantee you can stay if you are not improving your language.’ He said that learning English had ‘a connection with combating extremism’.

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