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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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Hammond: EU immigration reforms 'perfectly deliverable'

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the government is going "with the grain" in Europe in its attempt to change migration rules for EU citizens within member states.

In an interview with Political Correspondent Libby Wiener, he said the UK had consulted with partners in the European Union, and hoped to reach agreement on treaty change.

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