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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, in a speech designed to show that Britain was no longer to be a ‘soft touch’ for immigrants, said that people from the European Union would have to show they had a ‘genuine chance of getting work’ in order to claim UK unemployment benefits for more than six months. The UK Border Agency was to be abolished, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, told the Commons, because its performance was ‘not good enough’, and ‘the number of illegal immigrants removed does not keep up with the number of people who are here illegally’. The agency would be split up and returned to the Home Office, with one half focusing on the visa system and the other on immigration law enforcement. David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, announced that he was leaving politics to become head of the International Rescue Committee charity in New York.
In its annual report on counter-terrorism, the Home Office said that more than 500 people, including those who held extreme far-right views or were inspired by al-Qa’eda, had been put through a counter-terrorism deradicalisation programme called Channel.
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