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• Theresa May questioned by home affairs committee: Politics live blog

  Live 16 Dec 2013: • Nick Clegg's press conference - Snap summary
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  • Theresa May's evidence to the home affairs committee - Snap summary
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• Turkey signs deal to let EU send back illegal immigrants

  16 Dec 2013: Visa restrictions for Turkish nationals are lifted in return, weeks after country resumed EU membership negotiations

• Nick Clegg attacks Theresa May's 'illegal' plan for cap on EU immigrants

  16 Dec 2013:

  Deputy PM says Home Office should focus on policies such as reinstating exit checks rather than leaking 'undeliverable' ideas

• In a globalised world, there is no cure for slavery

  16 Dec 2013: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Theresa May's modern slavery bill proposes tougher sentences for traffickers, but the line between voluntary migration and servitude is often vague

• Theresa May says she wants to clamp down on EU citizens coming to UK

  16 Dec 2013: Home secretary refuses to confirm leak suggesting she wants cap of 75,000 workers, but attacks 'abuse' of free movement

• UK immigration policy is punishing Britons with non-EU spouses

  15 Dec 2013: Vincent Nichols: I have witnessed the trauma our supposedly pro-marriage government is inflicting on thousands of families and their children

• Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols attacks immigration targets

  15 Dec 2013:

  Catholic leader in England and Wales urges rethink on spousal visas and warns many families are split by new income rules

• Government considers EU immigration cap of 75,000 a year

  15 Dec 2013: Proposal emerges among range of measures including tougher employment criteria in leaked government report

• Prisoners 'damn well shouldn't' be given right to vote, says David Cameron

  13 Dec 2013: PM calls for restrictions on powers of European court of human rights and tougher controls on freedom of movement in EU

• Syrian refugees: UK pilloried for keeping its borders closed

  13 Dec 2013: EU countries should 'hang their heads in shame' for resettling so few trying to flee conflict, Amnesty International says

• From the archive, 13 December 1979: British judge warns about 'tide of EEC immigrants'

  13 Dec 2013:

  Originally published in the Guardian on the 13 December 1979: Lord Denning claims new arrivals are putting a strain on local authority services

• EU migrants face 100 new questions to make it harder to obtain benefits

  13 Dec 2013:

  The new habitual residence test is being rushed out before transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians are lifted

• Immigration is not the problem

  12 Dec 2013:

  Kenan Malik for New Humanist: Behind hostility to migrants lies a sense of the dissolution of British identity, abandonment by politicians and the erosion of common values

• Immigration minister: pay higher wages to recruit British and EU workers

  10 Dec 2013: Conservative Mark Harper says laws on non-EU workers will not be changed just so Domino's Pizza can keep wages low

• Mike Tyson banned from UK over rape conviction

  10 Dec 2013: Former heavyweight boxing champion forced to cancel book promotion due to recent change in UK immigration laws

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