“If imams are speaking in another language it makes it far harder to know if radicalisation is taking place," a senior Government source told The Sunday Telegraph .

The plans are said to have been inspired by some Middle Eastern countries which have requested sermons be published online in English.

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However, imams already in the UK will not face a change in licensing because it could be regarded as a limit on religious freedom, the paper reported.

“When I was sat in a mosque in Leeds this week one of the young people there said how important it is that imams speak English because if you have got young people, sometimes who speak English themselves but not Urdu and not Arabic, they need someone to guide them away from Isil and their poisonous rhetoric," he said.