Skift Take
In other news, Talinn just called Clegg and begged him to keep his countrymen at home instead of turning it into another vomit-soaked stag party destination like Prague.
Nick Clegg will on Wednesday chair a home affairs cabinet committee to examine wide-ranging plans to deter EU migrants, including Romanians and Bulgarians, from coming to Britain by slashing access across the spectrum of benefits without breaching EU discrimination laws. The drive has been given an added urgency by the Ukip surge in the Eastleigh byelection.
Labour's Frank Field, one of the MPs pressing for a crackdown, claimed Eastleigh had produced a change of heart, but ministers argue there is still a thicket of EU regulations on free movement of workers that they have been studying since the autumn.
A large cabinet subcommittee on migrants' access to benefits, chaired by the immigration minister, Mark Harper, has met six times to look at options ranging across access to housing, welfare and health services and the possibility of introducing a form of entitlement card for all EU citizens.
Ministers are tussling with the impact of a series of judgments at the European court of justice defending the free movement of workers within the EU, so making any hasty move will be difficult.
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