Almost one million migrants either cannot speak English well or cannot speak it at all, damning new figures show - sparking furious demands for new arrivals in Britain to integrate.
New data, handed to the Conservatives by the UK Statistics Authority last month, shows that almost 150,000 migrants are unable to speak the language whatsoever.
And while the majority of over-16s from abroad can speak English - 51.6 per cent say it is their main language - more than 930,000 cannot.
Some 8.6 per cent, or 794,332 people "cannot speak English well", The Sun reports, while 1.4 per cent, or 137,876 cannot at all.
Reacting to the figures, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: "It beggars belief that so many people in the country can’t speak English.
"It shows Labour needs to get a grip on immigration, and fast."
One of the leading critics of migrants' inability to speak English has been Reform UK's Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, who launched into a scathing rant on social media after it emerged that 865,299 calls to the Department for Work and Pensions last year required an interpreter.
"If you can't speak English - the answer is no. You can't get benefits," he said.
"If you can't speak English, then how on earth are these people going to ever contribute to our economy or society? Quite frankly, why have they been granted visas in the first place?
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"Why have we allowed such huge numbers of foreign nationals into the country who can't speak our language and can't fund themselves?
"What about those with a British passport, living in England, who can't speak English? That's an entirely different debate... One which needs to be had," he added.
Both Kemi Badenoch and Sir Keir Starmer have repeatedly laid the blame for migration failures at previous Tory Governments' doors.
In late November, the Prime Minister delivered a scathing address from Downing Street in which he accused the Conservatives of running a "one-nation experiment in open borders".
"A failure on this scale isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend, or taking your eye off the ball," he said.
"No. This a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed, deliberately, to liberalise immigration.
"Brexit was used for that purpose: to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders."
The Prime Minister has also vowed to cut soaring net migration by requiring employers to train more home-grown workers rather than hiring from abroad - and is set to unveil a blueprint to cut arrivals in the coming months.
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New data, handed to the Conservatives by the UK Statistics Authority last month, shows that almost 150,000 migrants are unable to speak the language whatsoever.
And while the majority of over-16s from abroad can speak English - 51.6 per cent say it is their main language - more than 930,000 cannot.
Some 8.6 per cent, or 794,332 people "cannot speak English well", The Sun reports, while 1.4 per cent, or 137,876 cannot at all.
Reacting to the figures, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: "It beggars belief that so many people in the country can’t speak English.
"It shows Labour needs to get a grip on immigration, and fast."
One of the leading critics of migrants' inability to speak English has been Reform UK's Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, who launched into a scathing rant on social media after it emerged that 865,299 calls to the Department for Work and Pensions last year required an interpreter.
"If you can't speak English - the answer is no. You can't get benefits," he said.
"If you can't speak English, then how on earth are these people going to ever contribute to our economy or society? Quite frankly, why have they been granted visas in the first place?
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"Why have we allowed such huge numbers of foreign nationals into the country who can't speak our language and can't fund themselves?
"What about those with a British passport, living in England, who can't speak English? That's an entirely different debate... One which needs to be had," he added.
Both Kemi Badenoch and Sir Keir Starmer have repeatedly laid the blame for migration failures at previous Tory Governments' doors.
In late November, the Prime Minister delivered a scathing address from Downing Street in which he accused the Conservatives of running a "one-nation experiment in open borders".
"A failure on this scale isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend, or taking your eye off the ball," he said.
"No. This a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed, deliberately, to liberalise immigration.
"Brexit was used for that purpose: to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders."
The Prime Minister has also vowed to cut soaring net migration by requiring employers to train more home-grown workers rather than hiring from abroad - and is set to unveil a blueprint to cut arrivals in the coming months.
Find Out More...