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Cameron was forced to 'retreat' over EU migrant plan

Prime Minster David Cameron backtracked from a radical plan to cap directly the number of EU migrants entering Britain after an intervention, according to reports.

But the PM had said that European migrants will be banned from claiming a range of benefits for the first four years after they arrive in the UK, under radical immigration reforms set out by David Cameron.

Unemployed Europeans will have six months to find a job or face being removed from the country, the Prime Minister will say in a speech on immigration reform today.

Mr Cameron said he has ruled "nothing out" if British concerns over migration "fall on deaf ears" at the European Union.

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Clegg: 'I doubt rest of EU will sign up to Cameron's pledge'

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Nick Clegg said he doubts all the other 27 countries in the EU will sign up to David Cameron's immigration blueprint.

The Deputy Prime Minister said he thought some of the ideas were "sensible and workable".

But he added there were "some very serious question marks about whether others will ever really happen in practice and whether they are deliverable."

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