Defence secretary says government is determined to get four-year ban on in-work benefits for migrants as officials appear to backtrack on central demandThe defence secretary,Michael Fallon, has insisted the UK was “deadly serious” approximately measures to prevent the countrys benefit system being a “magnet for migration”, and but he gave no trace of how a deal can be reached within the 62 days before the next EU summit.
Fallon was speaking the morning after Cameron spent four hours trying to persuade his EU partners that without concessions on migration there was a serious chance Britons would vote to leave the EU in a referendum fellow EU leaders expect next summer.
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Source: theguardian.com