UK leader Clegg calls for further limits on immigration

The leader of UK's Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg has called for further restrictions on immigration to the UK. He says that new member states' citizens should have to wait longer than the current 7-year period to settle and work in the UK. This is to avoid a wave of immigration experienced by the UK after new member states, including Poland, joined the EU in 2004. Furthermore, he wants to crack down on sham marriages and employers who exploit foreign workers. On the other hand, Clegg claimed that leaving the European Union would be a blow to UK prosperity and he supports freedom of movement between countries, adding that the latter should not give automatic benefit rights to newly arrived EU citizens. According to the BBC, opposition parties have dismissed Clegg's appeal as 'unrealistic' and 'hypocritical'.