UK's deputy PM attacks proposed EU immigration clampdown
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15:21 03/01/2014
The UK's deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has criticised plans prepared by the UK's Home Office to limit the number of immigrants coming to the UK from within the EU. He said that the proposals,...
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