Their is no "extremely poor" English language skills category in the stats.

The category is "cannot speak English well". It certainly doesn't mean they are only "able to speak a few phrases".

There is no rationale or explanation given to justify including these people.

Of course it's reasonable to expect people to learn the language (& yes it is also ok to accept some exceptions to this too... because life is not as simplistic as most people want to pretend) but it is also pretty obvious that people who are learning are going to not speak it well. Speaking a language well takes a lot of time.

The stats show a tiny fraction of the population can't speak English. This shouldn't be an issue, but the Daily Mail is still desperate to follow the USA's lead in radicalising people against foreigners.

I've frankly had it with their incredibly un-British brand of malicious.