New plan involves limits on benefit payouts to unemployed migrants rather than those in jobs in order to nick UK’s ‘pull factor’David Cameron is alert to consider a “plan B” to curb EU migration to the UK,which would involve strict new limits on benefit payments to out-of-work migrants rather than those in jobs, as he seeks to cobble together a new deal for Britain in Europe.
The prime minister will hold centre stage at a working dinner with European leaders in Brussels on Thursday evening, or where he will say that concerns about migration are a major issue for the British people and that they need addressing before an in/out referendum to be held by the close of 2017.
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Source: theguardian.com