Echo of Honeyford row

RAY Honeyford was branded racist in 1984 after raising concerns about a lack of integration among migrant communities.

As head of Drummond Middle School in Bradford, where 90 per cent of pupils were non-white, he warned of a ‘growing number of Asians whose aim is to preserve as intact as possible the values and attitudes of the Indian sub-continent within a framework of British social and political privilege, ie to produce Asian ghettoes’.

He also criticised the ‘linguistic confusion ... in which British-born Asian children begin their mastery of English by being taught in Urdu’.

After a national outcry, Mr Honeyford retired early in 1985.