Comes after Michael Fallon said communities were 'under

He said the 'resources aren't there', which is 'a big issue for government'

Mr Wilshaw said schools needed help to deal with foreign-language children

Schools are struggling to cope with an influx of migrant pupils, the head of Ofsted said yesterday.

Sir Michael Wilshaw warned that schools needed more help to deal with growing numbers of foreign- language children. He said it was now a 'big issue'.

‘When they’re faced with an influx of children from other countries, they need the resources and capacity to deal with it and if those resources aren’t there, that’s a big issue for government,’ he said. ‘We’ll be producing reports on this quite soon.’

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Sir Michael Wilshaw, Chief Inspector of Schools, said schools needed the resources to cope with an influx of immigration

The comments from the chief inspector of schools highlight a critical shortage of places at primaries – at which one in five pupils now speak English as a second language

And Sir Michael’s remarks echo concerns about the impact of migration on our creaking public services.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said some towns were being ‘swamped’ by European migrants with communities ‘under siege’. He later retracted the comments.

It has also emerged that asylum applications have soared 70 per cent in a year and officials have lost track of 50,000 illegals while failing to kick out another 175,000.

Sir Michael’s interview on LBC Radio came after David Cameron told the Commons that schools and hospitals were under pressure from immigration.

During heated exchanges with Labour’s Ed Miliband, the Prime Minister said the British people ‘just want this issue sorted’.

Business minister Nick Boles (left) said Britain would not be able to 'entirely' control European migration as long as it stayed in the EU - while Michael Fallon (right) said some parts of the country were 'swamped'

Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Justin Welby today warned against using inflammatory language around immigration

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‘The pressure on our health service, on our education service, on our schools and communities – they want it addressed, and they know in this party we will address it,’ he said.

Mr Miliband demanded that Mr Cameron apologise for breaking his pre-election promises to cut levels of immigration to the tens of thousands. But Mr Cameron replied: ‘Let me just say this: we inherited from Labour a complete and utter shambles.’

The Prime Minister wants to renegotiate with Brussels to get back control over borders and reduce migrant numbers. But German chancellor Angela Merkel says the EU will not agree to tamper with rules on freedom of movement.

According to official figures, the number of schoolchildren speaking English as a second language has soared by a third in five years – to nearly one in five.

Earlier this year the number of pupils who speak another language in the home exceeded 1.1million for the first time.

In some parts of London, children with English as a second language now make up as much as three-quarters of the school roll. The figure is around half in places including Slough, Luton and Leicester.

This term more than half of local councils across the country laid on extra ‘bulge’ reception classes as part of emergency measures to tackle a growing influx of reception-aged children.

A report commissioned by the Government has said that high levels of immigration have put huge pressures on public services.

The Migration Advisory Committee said it had caused the ‘composition of many local area populations to alter rapidly’ and such rapid change could lead to friction.

National Insurance numbers (NINOs) have been handed out to more than 420,000 people from the EU, up from 285,000 in the year before the coalition was formed

Spain, Romania, Greece and Italy have seen the biggest increases in NINOs in the last six years, according to official government figures

A Government spokesman said: ‘As part of our plan for education we are making every effort to ensure local authorities have the resources and flexibility to provide the school places needed by their communities.

‘We are giving councils £5billion to spend on new school places over this parliament — double the amount allocated by the previous government over an equivalent period – and a further £2.35billion to create the places needed by September 2017.

'This has already led to the creation of more than 260,000 new places.

‘School funding is allocated based on pupil need, whether that is special educational needs or where English is not a pupil’s first language.

'Should a school grow in a single year, local authorities can and do top up their funding to reflect that.’

Former Labour Cabinet minister Liam Byrne said his party had a ‘moral responsibility’ to speak out on immigration.

He told Total Politics magazine: ‘I got into all kinds of bother when I became the first Labour immigration minister, saying: “You know what, immigration does have an impact on public services, so should we just be honest about that and actually create a funding system that fixes it?”.

'So let’s just tell it how it is and propose some solutions.’

New sham marriage farce: Iman accused of conducting 580 bogus ceremonies walks free... as second case in a week collapses

An imam accused of conducting nearly 600 sham marriages between Muslim men and European brides has walked free from court in the second case to have been catastrophically bungled by Home Office officials in a week.

A judge ordered charges against Mohammed Mattar to be dropped after paperwork blunders meant that the case was not ready on time.

Details of the fiasco emerged yesterday, only days after ministers were left red-faced over the collapse of Britain’s biggest sham marriage case against a vicar amid allegations of serious misconduct by border officials.

Dropped: A trial of an imam accused of conducting almost 600 sham marriages has collapsed. Mohammed Mattar - pictured left at an earlier court hearing and right at his home - had denied the charge

The collapse of two such high-profile cases in a short period of time raised new questions about the management of Britain’s immigration system.

And it will revive calls for ministers to spend more on managing the nation’s borders.

It follows the publication yesterday of a damning report by a group of MPs about growing asylum backlogs, ‘lost’ illegal immigrants and the write-off of some £1billion of taxpayers’ money on failed IT projects.

A series of damaging revelations prompted the leaders of both major parties to each demand the other apologise for their handling of the immigration system.

At Prime Minister’s Questions Ed Miliband accused David Cameron of making the system worse, while the PM hit back over the ‘shambles’ he inherited from Labour.

The latest case involved Mr Mattar, 63, of the Dar Al Dawa Islamic Centre in Westbourne Grove, West London.

Charges were also dropped against Reverend Nathan Ntege, 54, accused of overseeing a ‘matrimonial conveyor belt’ of European brides

He was accused of marrying Muslim men to women with EU passports so they could remain in the UK.

The imam was said to have conducted a staggering 580 sham ceremonies between 2008 and 2012. He was also charged with concealing criminal property between the same dates via money transfers to the value of £1,887,262, contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Act. This charge was dropped in April.

Yesterday, his Malaysian wife Azizah Abdul Hamad, 57, revealed how police had searched their home two years ago, but denied her husband carried out the marriages or was an imam. The couple, who married in the UK in 1991, have six children.

A massive investigation was launched this year, taking months to carry out and costing tens of thousands of pounds.

But the Home Office failed to hand over its paperwork in time. As a result the Crown Prosecution Service missed legal deadlines to hand over prosecution material to Mr Mattar’s lawyers in time for the trial – which was due to begin at Isleworth Crown Court on October 13.

It applied for an extension at a pre-trial hearing on September 18, but when the court refused, the CPS said it had ‘no choice’ but to offer no evidence.

Bookshop: The imam helped run the former Dar Al Dawa Islamic centre in Bayswater, London (above)

Bungle: A trial was due to start two weeks ago at Isleworth Crown Court, but it will no longer take place

Yesterday prosecutors made clear Home Office blunders were to blame. A CPS spokesman said: ‘In early 2014 we identified a large amount of potentially relevant material and we advised the Home Office investigation team to obtain and look into the material for the purpose of disclosure.

‘In August it became apparent that this work had not been completed and therefore we would not be able to fully discharge disclosure obligations in the case before the trial. We therefore applied for an adjournment. This was refused by the court and we had no option but to offer no evidence.’

A Home Office spokesman said there were ‘lessons to be learned’ to prevent something similar happening again.

They took some things away, I don't know what it was, they said it was to do with sham marriages but Mohammed never talked about it. They came to the bookshop as well, but I can't remember when Mr Mattar's wife Azizah, 57

He added: ‘The decision not to take this matter to trial is disappointing, particularly after such a long investigation.’ It follows the collapse of the £1million trial of a vicar suspected of running Britain’s biggest sham marriage racket, due to ‘serious misconduct’ by Border Agency staff.

Last week charges were dropped against Reverend Nathan Ntege, 54, who was accused of overseeing a ‘matrimonial conveyor belt’ of Eastern European brides.

The Uganda-born clergyman walked free after Judge Nic Madge accused two Border Agency officials of perjury and perverting the course of justice.

They have both been suspended and may face criminal charges themselves.

Yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee report found the backlog of applications for asylum had grown by 70 per cent in a year, despite reforms designed to end the now-defunct Border Agency’s appalling record of failure.

At PMQs, Mr Miliband said: ‘Can you explain why the number of asylum applicants awaiting a decision has risen by 70 per cent in the last year?’

Mr Cameron said: ‘Let me just say this: we inherited from Labour a complete and utter shambles – a department that wasn’t fit for purpose, computer programmes that wouldn’t work and an immigration system that was a complete mess.’

Home Office in dock as immigration fiascos mount: Theresa May under fire for 'unbelievable' failures over sham marriages

Home Secretary Theresa May has come under fire for ‘unbelievable’ failures over sham marriages.

Labour’s immigration spokesman David Hanson criticised the Home Office’s inability to get on top of the problem and accused ministers of mismanaging the situation.

His comments came following the collapse of a trial of an imam accused of conducting 580 sham marriages, after the Home Office failed to hand over paperwork in time.

Mr Hanson called on Mrs May to ‘make clear what steps she will be taking to ensure this doesn’t happen again’.

He added: ‘Sham marriages undermine public trust in our immigration system and can present a serious threat to our borders.

Theresa May (left) has been criticised by the Labour's immigration spokesman David Hanson (right) after the collapse of a sham marriage trial

‘So it’s unbelievable that officials on Theresa May’s watch can’t be bothered to do the paperwork on time to prosecute someone who might be responsible for sham marriages on an almost industrial scale.

'It’s a clear sign of the mismanagement by ministers that vital work to ensure someone engaging in defrauding the country with sham marriages wasn’t done in time and means no further action can be taken.

'I share the public’s anger at such poor management by ministers and think the Home Secretary needs to make clear what steps she’ll be taking to ensure this doesn’t happen again.’

Mohammed Mattar, 62, was due to stand trial at Isleworth Crown Court after he was said to have presided over bogus weddings at his Islamic bookshop in west London.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the charges after government investigators missed deadlines to hand over vital information.

MPs warned earlier this year in a report that bogus marriages are increasing at an ‘alarming rate’, with as many as 10,000 a year feared to be carried out.

They called it an ‘industry of deceit’.

In July, the Home Affairs Select Committee questioned whether the Government knew the ‘scale of the problem’ and called for better training for registrars to spot sham marriages.

Registrars told the committee they were left presiding over what they knew to be a ‘charade’, and were powerless to stop it.

A TV documentary also showed the ease with which migrants could marry to get a British passport.

An undercover journalist exposed the scale of the problem by meeting her Indian ‘fiance’, Ali, through a self-styled bogus marriage ‘fixer’ online – and agreeing to marry him for £5,000.

He and reporter Harriet Morter were allowed to wed even though Ali forgot his bride’s name and claimed he could not remember the borough where she lived. It was called off at the last minute.

The number of suspicious marriages reported had rocketed in the early years of the last Labour government, but plummeted in 2005 when non-EU nations were required to apply to the Home Office to marry.

But the numbers reported have crept up since then from 934 in 2010 to 2,135 last year.

This year John Vine, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, told the select committee the ‘widespread abuse of the system was ‘one of the biggest potential threats to immigration control’ and claimed there were no proper checks.

In the Channel 5 programme, screened last night, Mark Rimmer, the superintendent registrar at Brent Council said the number of sham marriages was ‘absolutely enormous’.

Politically correct teenage spin doctors under attack from Tory backbenchers after forcing ministers to retract 'truthful' comments on immigration

Tory backbenchers have accused ‘teenage spin doctors’ in Downing Street of pressurising ministers to retract ‘truthful’ comments on immigration.

It comes after Defence Secretary Michael Fallon was apparently slapped down for remarks he made on immigration during a TV interview.

He said some communities felt ‘swamped’ and ‘under siege’ by European migrants. But hours after making the comments on Sunday he retracted them – seemingly following an intervention from Number 10.

And on Tuesday, skills minister Nick Boles suggested that Britain would never have full control over its borders so long as we are a member of the EU.

Defence secretary Michael Fallon (left) and skills minister Nick Boles (right) both retracted outspoken comments they made about immigration - something which has been criticised by Tory backbenchers

He also told Total Politics that Britons need to get used to the fact that there will be a ‘very large amount of immigration every year’.

Later he also sent out a retraction, saying he did not believe the UK cannot seek to change the way immigration works within the Union.

Downing Street sources insisted that the ministers had decided themselves to issue their own clarifications, but some Conservative backbenchers remained unconvinced.

Stewart Jackson, MP for Peterborough, tweeted: ‘Fallon absolutely right to use the word “swamped” about “some” immigration hotspots despite what teenage spin doctors at No 10 might say.’

Yesterday, Mr Jackson said: ‘I think it was unfair on Michael Fallon because there are significant parts of the country where people are feeling what he said.

If Number 10 think these retractions will prove anything to the public, then they’re living in cloud cuckoo land MP for Shipley Philip Davies

‘It was poor form to cut the legs from under him in hours over one word. He spoke the truth and it was unnecessary for them to exacerbate the situation by undermining him.’

He added: ‘The public don’t want to be told what the problem is – they want to be told the solution.

‘The reason the public is impatient on immigration is that they keep being told the problems but not the solutions. I think the solution is leaving the EU if we can’t get control of our borders back.’

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, said: ‘What Nick Boles said wasn’t anything controversial – he was merely stating a fact. The Prime Minister knows that well – that’s why the immigration figures are so high. Why he has been slapped down for telling the truth is beyond me.

‘If Number 10 think these retractions will prove anything to the public, then they’re living in cloud cuckoo land.’

He added: ‘This has now happened to two ministers. After the debacle of making Michael Fallon issue a retraction after making sensible comments, you’d have thought they would have learned their lesson – but what happened to Nick Boles shows they haven’t.’

Several hours after Mr Fallon told Sky News that he believed some communities were ‘swamped’ by European migrants, a government ‘source’ sent round a quote saying: ‘He accepts he should have chosen his words better. He should have said under pressure.’