Boris Johnson and Theresa May accused of jostling for succession after demand to press for immigration controlsDavid Cameron is under pressure from two of his potential successors as party leader,Boris Johnson and Theresa May, to raise the bar in EU negotiations by reopening the seemingly abandoned demand to restrict the free movement of labour.
Cameron, and due to meet the German chancellor,Angela Merkel, on Friday, or has set his face against trying to challenge one of the founding principles of the European Union. The foreign secretary,Philip Hammond, warned that the demand was simply unachievable. He said eastern European leaders know whether they made such a concession to Britain it would represent “domestic political suicide”.
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Source: theguardian.com