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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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Poland will 'block' Cameron's radical immigration plans

A senior figure in the Polish government has told ITV News that Poland would definitely block any UK treaty revisions that would discriminate between British and EU citizens.

Economist Jacek Rostowski, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, made the comments following David Cameron's speech laying out radical reforms to ban European migrants from claiming a range of benefits for their first four years in the UK.

Mr Rostowski told ITV News correspondent Martin Geissler that "of course" Poland would veto the move - which requires the co-operation of every EU country.

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