Is Your Mum a Refugee?

I don't remember being excited for it at all, I was very nervous. But you're almost kind of vicariously pregnant yourself as a five-year-old. My mum would have really liked to learn the language herself, but we came to the UK at a time where there still is a lot of hostility towards refugees. And she was terrified to go outside. She was really, really scared. It was also at a time when ESOL funding, you know, English as an additional language funding, was being slashed. So she didn't really have a chance to get out there and learn the language for herself.