A campaign has been launched to make Romanian a GCSE option available to students, with campaigners saying census data supports their request. When Londoners were asked in the 2021 census what their "main" language was, the second most-listed language was Romanian, after English, with 159,000 speakers. The campaign, supported by Harrow West's Labour MP Gareth Thomas, has been launched by British historian Dr Tessa Dunlop, who has a specialist interest in Romania. The Department for Education said: "It is for exam boards to decide which languages to offer at GCSE," and added that it was introducing a "stepped qualification in languages" within the primary curriculum. Dunlop told the BBC: "If we can deliver this GCSE, that is really something that Britain can really take pride of - a way of owning our status as a welcoming space for migrants we have invited in, and a way of celebrating the wonderful diversity in this country." The historian and campaigner has two children who learn Romanian at home.…