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Cyrus Todiwala MBE – Chef, restauranteur and educator
You have just come from speaking to the BBC on issues that you clearly find emotive. What’s going on? The Government has put forward a new proposal that restaurateurs cannot import staff from India who don’t speak English. But people who come from Poland, Bulgaria or Lithuania don’t necessarily speak English. The restaurateurs are saying it is unfair, because those people who come from remote areas, who might have a particular skill that is lacking here, won’t necessarily know the language. I agree you can’t survive in this country without English – the Government has a point. But the fact that every single person coming out of the subcontinent of India must speak English I think is very arrogant on the part of the Home Office. ...
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