Who speaks what
The Chancellor, Sajid Javid, included a little Punjabi in his speech to the Tory conference. How many people in Britain would have understood him? In the 2011 census the ONS counted 273,000 Punjabi speakers in Britain. The other most common languages, besides English and Welsh, were:
Polish
546,000
Urdu
269,000
Bengali
221,000
Gujarati
213,000
Arabic
159,000
French
147,000
Portuguese
133,000
Spanish
120,000
Death by gender
The British Heart Foundation claimed women were needlessly dying of heart disease because they were receiving less good treatment than men.
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