The British Prime Minister, David Cameron says that migrant families have an obligation to teach their children English before they start school. He has also pledged to bring forward tougher rules to ensure that those arriving in the UK had a reasonable standard of the language.
Birmingham, Bradford and Leicester all have more than 40 per cent of pupils in primary schools who do not have English as a first language.
Now I wonder, what would happen if Spain insisted that migrants to this country had a reasonable command of Spanish. There are many thousands of Brits for example who have been here for quite a few years and still have little or no command of the language.
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