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The Conservative-Liberal Democrats governing coalition is under fresh pressure over the issue of immigration policy amid the recent launch of a Tory campaign to urge illegal migrants to go home or face arrest, writes The Daily Telegraph.
Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable slammed the pilot campaign currently operating in London in which trucks bearing banners threatening illegal immigrants with arrest circulate the streets, as “stupid and offensive”.
The parties are keenly divided on the immigration issue, with Lib Dems believeing their coalition partners are too focused on the matter. In March, it emerged that the government was considering a plan to require schools to check the immigration status of their pupils, while Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled a plan to cut benefit payments to jobless EU immigrants after six months.
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