Apologies for there being no News Review yesterday, but Kipper had a problem with their laptop. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
PM will miss target to cut migration, says Cable: Intervention could spark new round of Coalition rows
- Vince Cable dubbed David Cameron’s target to cut migration ‘impractical’
- Cameron aims to slash net migration to below 100,000 by next election
- Comes just weeks after Cable compared Prime Minister to Enoch Powell
Buy less foreign food says Environment Minister: Quarter of imported products ‘could be grown in Britain’
- Owen Paterson wants people to buy ‘Scottish raspberries’ and ‘Kent apples’
- Believes British farmers and producers ‘grow best food in the world’
- Around 40% of our food is currently brought in from overseas
- An estimated £8billion of fruit and vegetables was imported in 2012
Poland hits back at Cameron plan to stop child benefit being exported across the EU, accusing PM of ‘stigmatising’ families
- Cameron said it is wrong European workers in UK can send benefits home
- He singled out Poland where two thirds of all child benefit is sent back
- Deal would need to be struck with other EU countries or secure new treaty
- Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski tweeted: ‘No need to stigmatise’
60mph ‘green’ speed limit on the motorway: Slower stretch on M1 to meet EU pollution target… and more are planned
- Speed limit will be cut from 70mph to 60mph to meet EU pollution targets
- Will be imposed on 32-mile stretch of M1 between junctions 28 and 35a
- Drivers who break limit will face hefty fine and penalty points on licence
- Scheme ‘not ruled out’ on other stretches of motorways, including M3
- Motoring groups claim limit will have negative impact on businesses
Almost 80 per cent of Britons want a cut in immigration
NEARLY eight in 10 Britons want immigration slashed, a major survey reveals today.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/452422/Almost-80-per-cent-of-Britons-want-a-cut-in-immigration
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Further cuts to welfare as George Osborne warns of ‘year of hard truths’
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Nick Robinson is right, the BBC did get it badly wrong over immigration
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I’d rather be poorer with fewer migrants, Farage says
Farage says lower economic growth is a price worth paying to cut immigration
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How much would you pay to reduce immigration?
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Martin Callanan MEP: A budget cut. Fisheries reform. Protecting shale – and more. What Tories achieved in Europe last year
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