List of MPs pushing PM on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants grows

There are now 33 MPs backing Nigel Mills’s amendment to the Immigration Bill which calls for transitional controls on Romanian and Bulgarian migrants to be extended until 2018. You can read the full list of names below – the amendment will be debated at the report stage of the bill, which is expected to take place in the next few weeks. Today at the morning lobby briefing, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman wasn’t particularly willing to discuss reports that appeared over the weekend of his own plans to stem the flow when the controls do lift – which they will have to unless Britain wants a legal challenge from Brussels (which is what some MPs want, even if the only result is that the government gives the impression that it has tried everything it possibly can to be tough on the new migrants) – and would only comment that ministers are considering what more can be done.