The party's immigration policy offers a subtle combination of restricted
migrant access to benefits and a raised and better - enforced minimum wage.
Not exact matches
One of the issues of the day was Cameron's plan
to restrict the
access that Romanian and Bulgarian
migrants will have
to benefits when they get full rights next year as EU citizens
to live and work in the UK.
In recent days, Labour has upped the ante on Europe by promising
to negotiate the right
to restrict
access to British
benefits and tax credits
to EU
migrants with European partners.
But let's come back
to that question of
access to benefits for
migrants — or,
to be precise,
migrants who want
to come
to Britain because they had the audacity
to fall in love with someone who holds a British passport.
The problem is Cameron and other senior ministers have been talking up the importance of treaty change in order
to prevent proposals like tightening
migrants»
access to benefits from being challenged in the courts.
In the letter, Cameron confirms his desire
to restrict EU
migrants»
access to in work
benefits for four years.
Before the prime minister's announcements about restricting
migrants»
access to benefits the five - point gap between the two parties was as wide as 13 %.
Some of the proposals Cameron suggested included a crackdown on new immigrants claiming
benefits and the development of a «residency test»
to make it more difficult for
migrants to access legal aid.
Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on limiting
access to Britain's welfare state were dealt a blow yesterday when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring
migrants from in - work
benefits and social housing.
Ministers have set out a series of measures
to limit
migrant access to public services and
benefits to try
to reduce further so - called «pull factors»
to the UK.
But this was a limited emergency brake that would have enabled Britain
to restrict EU
migrants»
access to in - work
benefits.
Ensure
access to Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance and other federal entitlements
to migrant workers already in Canada and portable
benefits to migrant workers who are no longer here.
R (NS) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 1971, [2014] Imm AR 1153: first decided case concerning the Government's policy restricting
migrant access to state
benefits.
David Cameron formally set out the government's objective
to restrict EU
migrants»
access to in - work
benefits, such as tax credits, in a recent letter
to the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk.