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Although new immigrants into the UK from outside of the European Union are going to have to speak some English, migrants from the EU have free access and not only is English not a requirement, we cannot by EU law use their inability to speak English for any form of discrimination.

We cannot apply a language test as part of any job interview or use lack of English as a reason not to employ someone from the EU, even doctors.

It really has got a bit multiculturally mad over here. London borough Haringey's Council translates documents into most of the 193 different languages spoken in the area.

And we pay for it.