EU jobseekers will need to have a job before they can come to the UK, they won’t get “in-work benefits” for four years, and it will be harder for EU nationals to bring their partners to the UK. If the Conservatives win a majority at the general election, that is.
David Cameron today said he will cut benefits for new immigrants from the EU if the Conservatives win the next election.
The prime minister gave the speech the day after official figures were released showing net migration to the UK had hit 260,000 people a year.
This means there's no chance Cameron can keep his 2010 election pledge to reduce net migration in the UK to below 100,000 a year.
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In his speech, the Tory leader made it clear that immigration to the UK is a good thing. "We are Great Britain because of immigration, not in spite of it," he said.
He praised immigration for, among other things, the NHS, "which would grind to a halt without the hundreds of thousands who have come from overseas to help run it".
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"It is not wrong to express concern about the scale of people coming into the country," he said.
To counter this, the prime minister said that the government needed more "control" over immigration, claiming most Britons want three things:
– They "want government to have control over the number of people coming here".
– They "want control over who has the right to receive benefits".
– They want the government to have these controls because of pressures on the health service, schools, and housing.
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