UPDATE: The Prime Minister has now given his conference speech. This is the passage on EU migration:
“Immediate access to our welfare system, paying benefits to families back home, employment agencies signing up people from overseas, not recruiting here, numbers that have increased faster than we in this country wanted and at a level that was too much for our communities and for our labour markets. All of this has to change and it will be at the very heart of my renegotiation strategy for Europe. Britain: I know you want this sorted, so I will go to Brussels, I will not take no for an answer and when it comes to free movement I will get what Britain needs.”
So, no new policy announcement today. However, David Cameron’s reference to the “numbers that have increased” and “at a level that was too much for our communities” leaves the question we posed below […]