Nick Boles: how to deport jobless EU immigrants

From Fraser Nelson: David Cameron proposing delaying welfare payments to EU immigrants – which some might see as his listening more to Lynton Crosby and less to the likes of modernisers like Nick Boles (whose approach to politics Bruce Anderson critiques below). But Boles has advocated going far further: deporting EU immigrants who don’t work. He believes he has found a clause in EU law that allows it. Given that Boles is generally seen as an uber-moderniser,  I thought Coffee Housers may be interested in seeing another side to his political thought –  a deportation plan which is further than most right-wing Tory MPs would go.  The below is abridged from his book ‘Which Way’s Up’?

I have changed my mind about immigration. It was only when I was elected onto Westminster City Council that I began to discover the downside of mass immigration. As chairman of the housing committee, I had to help the council wrestle with the pressure on social housing from asylum seekers and other migrants.