(DAILY MAIL) David Cameron dropped plans to put a cap on the number of EU immigrants allowed into Britain after being ‘sat on’ by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former minister said today.
The Prime Minister announced last week that he would ban migrants from claiming benefits for four years after moving to Britain. But he failed to include a controversial ‘emergency break’ on migration if the benefit cuts did not lead to a fall in the number of EU workers moving to the UK.
Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson today said he did not think Mr Cameron could ‘deliver’ even his watered-down pledge. He said: ‘It looks as if we’ve already been sat on by the Germans.’
