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DAVID Cameron yesterday

promised to crack down on

the beneﬁ ts free-for-all for

migrants coming to Britain.

In an exclusive interview with the

Daily Express, the Prime Minister

revealed that newcomers are to be

banned from claiming legal aid in

cases involving beneﬁ ts, housing and

other civil claims.

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taxpayers millions of pounds – is the ﬁ rst

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step in wide-ranging regulations to curb

immigrants from getting immediate

access to public services and beneﬁ ts.

“We’re a fair country and a welcoming

country, but not a soft touch,” Mr

Cameron said. “Let’s make sure that

ours is the toughest country instead of

the softest.”

He has also ordered ministers to “think

like Conservatives” and come up with

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HUMBLE Oscars hero Daniel Day-

Lewis dismissed as “daft” claims

yesterday that he is now the world’s

greatest screen star after claiming

the Best Actor award for a record

third time.

The 55-year-old led the way in a

night of success for British talent,

including an award for singer Adele,

at the glittering Hollywood event.

Day-Lewis was honoured for his

portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in

Steven Spielberg’s drama.

At one after-show party he said it

was “daft” that people should regard

him as the world’s best actor, say-

ing: “Sean (Penn) had to go through

all this a few years ago. It changes all

the time.”

Method actor Day-Lewis, son of

former Poet Laureate Cecil, spent a

year preparing for Lincoln and is

said to have remained in character

for the entire production.

Accepting his Oscar from Meryl

Streep, who has also won three

Oscars but in different categories,

the bashful star said: “I really don’t

know how any of this happened. I do

know I’ve received more than my

fair share of good fortune in my

life.”

Day-Lewis had pre-

viously won in 1990 for

My Left Foot and in

2008 for There Will Be

Blood.

Singer Adele Adkins,

24, was also the centre

of attention at the

ceremony in Holly-

wood’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday

night. Glittering in a crystal-

embellished black dress, custom

made for her by Burberry, the star

won Best Original Song for Skyfall,

along with her co-writer Paul

Epworth. It gave her a hat-trick of her

own, having previously won a Golden

Globe and a Grammy this year.

The tearful singer thanked her

song-writing partner for “believing

in me all the time, and my man, I

love you baby”, referring to her

partner and the father of her baby

boy, Simon Konecki.

Wearing priceless Lorraine

Schwartz diamonds and silver

platform heels, she also shone as she

belted out the hit at the 85th

Academy Awards, hosted this year

by comic Seth MacFarlane.

Even with her amazing voice,

Adele had some stiff competition up

on stage, with Barbra Streisand and

Dame Shirley Bassey also putting in

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performances. Dame Shirley, 76,

sang Goldﬁ nger nearly 50 years

since she ﬁ rst recorded the song for

the 1964 Bond ﬁ lm. And Streisand,

70, performed her classic song

The Way We Were.

But the ladies seemed to get along

famously and were seen posing and

laughing for photos all night as they

bonded over shepherd’s pie at the

Oscars Governors Ball straight after

the ceremony.

The British success started with

Jacqueline Durran winning for her

costume design on Anna Karenina

and the make-up and hairstyling

award went to Lisa Westcott and

Julie Dartnell for Les Miserables.

Skyfall also won the award for

best sound editing, which was tied

with Zero Dark Thirty. It is only the

third time in Oscars history that

winners have been tied.

The presentation of the awards

was broken up by a series of musical

performances including one show-

stopping performance from Welsh

star Catherine Zeta-Jones singing

All That Jazz from

Chicago and Jennifer

Hudson performing

I’m Telling You from

Dreamgirls.

The nominees for

Best Film were intro-

duced by First Lady

Michelle Obama from

the White House before

she named Argo as the winner. Ben

Afﬂ eck, who also starred in the ﬁ lm,

paid tribute to the “genius”

Spielberg who lost out in the

category for Lincoln.

Referring to his success in 1998

with Good Will Hunting, he said: “I

never thought I would be back here

and I am because of so many of you

who are here tonight.”

He added: “It doesn’t matter how

you get knocked down in life, all that

matters is that you get up.”

Ang Lee picked up the statuette

for Best Director for Life Of Pi, beat-

ing Spielberg, who many expected

would collect the award for Lincoln.

Best Actress went to Jennifer

Lawrence for Silver Linings Play-

book while Anne Hathaway won

Best Supporting Actress for Les

Miserables.

Christoph Waltz picked up the

Best Supporting Actor award for

Django Unchained.

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Singing the praises of ‘my man’

WHEN Adele achieved Oscar

glory there was one person

she had to thank – her part-

ner Simon Konecki.

And now, with a baby boy

and a haul of awards, the

24-year-old singer’s future is

looking brighter than ever.

Konecki, 39, is the “my

man” the star thanked for

her Oscar on Sunday night.

But little is known about

the enigmatic Old Etonian

philanthropist, who seems to

prefer taking a back seat

while Adele soaks up the

limelight.

The pair were ﬁ rst intro-

duced by friends at a gig for

another artist in Brighton in

2011 and quickly fell in love.

Just months before, Adele

had admitted she was think-

a cramped ﬂ at in south Lon-

don. For the ﬁ rst decade of

his life, Konecki lived in New

York.

While Adele would play

truant from her school in

Balham, Konecki moved to

London at the age of 10 and

was enrolled at Eton for two

years.

It was while studying in

England that Konecki met

his future business partner

Lucas White and, at just 17,

he was given the opportunity

to become a foreign exchange

broker.

And like Adele, who has

found success at 24, by the

same age Konecki was run-

ning teams of senior brokers

at the Lehman Brothers

investment group.

Adele at the Oscars ceremony and her partner Simon Konecki

ing of signing up to an online

dating website.

Konecki, who now runs his

own eco-company White,

was instantly drawn to

Adele’s creative, free spirit.

However, the pair’s back-

grounds could not be more

different.

Adele was brought up on

the breadline by single

mother Penny Adkins, 41, in

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Adele and

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meet at the

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JENNIFER Lawrence takes a

tumble as she climbs the

steps to collect her Best

Actress award for Silver

Linings Playbook.

The embarrassed 22-year-

old tripped on the hem of her

billowing Dior Couture gown.

Jennifer doesn’t have much

fashion luck on award nights.

Her dress ripped at the Screen

Actors Guild last month.

Day-Lewis who won for Lincoln, left, with winners Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway and Christoph Waltz

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fresh ideas for curbing immigrants’

access to the NHS, social housing

and a string of welfare handouts.

In a wide-ranging interview with

the Daily Express, Mr Cameron also

spoke of his “immense frustration”

at working with Nick Clegg after his

Liberal Democrat deputy reneged

on a deal on reforming Parliamen-

tary boundaries.

He also vowed to keep Chancellor

George Osborne in his post despite

Britain losing its cherished AAA

credit rating.

But he reserved his strongest

words for a pledge to go far further

in cutting annual net immigration.

Promising new curbs on beneﬁts

to try to discourage a massive inﬂux

from Bulgaria and Romania when

border controls are relaxed at the

end of the year, he said: “I think the

most important thing is to make

sure that while you have free move-

ment you are not a soft touch.

“That is why we are going through,

in ﬁne detail, our beneﬁts system,

our tax system, our health system,

our housing system, every aspect of

our welfare system.”

Mr Cameron’s crackdown is

designed to save cash from Britain’s

£2billion annual legal aid bill.

He has asked Justice Secretary

Chris Grayling to develop a new

“residency test” to ensure that

migrants do not get automatic

access to legal aid in civil court

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DAVID Cameron yesterday

rejected Tory calls for George

Osborne to be shifted out of the

Treasury following the recent

blow to Britain’s international

credit rating.

In a vote of conﬁdence in his

under-pressure Chancellor,

the Prime Minister said: “He is

doing a great job in very difﬁcult

times.”

He insisted that low borrowing

rates would spur the country to

recovery.

“This is a reminder of just how

tough it is, how hard we have to

work to get on top of its deﬁcit

and pay our way in the world,” he

said of the decision by

international rating agency

Moody’s to downgrade the UK

from an AAA rating to AA1.

“In the end, what matters

most of all is what interest rates

you are paying on the debt you

have, how you are able to fund

your debts.

“There, Britain has a good

record, strong credibility, low

interest rates which we must

maintain.”

Mr Cameron added: “There are

other countries that have lost

their top credit ratings, so we are

not alone in this.

“All over the world countries

are battling with big deﬁcits and

big debts and having to make

difﬁcult decisions.

“What matters is sticking to

those difﬁcult decisions.”

Patrick O’Flynn, left, and Macer Hall, centre, line up a raft of tough questions for the Prime Minister yesterday

Are there other ways of trying to

cap excessive welfare payments?

“People can work hard and

contribute and feel frustrated

when people who haven’t done

those things get help,” he said.

He also spoke of his pride in

protecting beneﬁts until 2016 for

the elderly such as free bus

passes, free TV licences and

winter fuel payments. And he

added the Government was

making huge efforts to protect

the elderly from the rising cost of

care by setting a £75,000 cap.

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deserved a choice after decades

of the expansion of Brussels

power without a single poll.

And he added: “I’m conﬁdent

that we will secure the changes

that are needed. What I want is to

secure a reformed EU and

Britain’s place within it.

“I’m giving people the choice.

You can’t have a European Union

developing in a way that it has

developed, with treaty after

treaty, change after change,

power after power. You can’t have

that without seeking the consent

of the British people.

“I want to seek that consent on

the basis of a better deal. You

can’t go on for year after year

without the public having a say.”

Mr Cameron said senior Tories

were now united around his

referendum pledge.

And he promised to keep

battling to cut the UK contribution

to EU funds after his recent

victory in securing a reduced

seven-year Brussels budget.

He said: “We’ve done a good

deal. I will always be tough on the

budget. We pay in more than we

get back. But that doesn’t mean I

think we should come out of the

EU. We can get reforms.”

DAVID Cameron defended his

spiralling overseas aid budget

yesterday and said helping the

world’s poor made Britain safer.

“We made a promise about

overseas aid. I think you

shouldn’t break your promises to

the poorest people in the world,”

he told the Daily Express.

“To anyone who is dubious, I

would say look at the

consequences when a country

like Somalia falls apart.

“It means more migration, more

asylum seekers, more terrorism.

So money spent to stabilise and

prevent the breakdown of failed

states is actually a good

investment for Britain.”

He insisted he was still “proud”

of the defence budget, despite

slashing Britain’s armed forces.

“The defence budget is

£33billion and is being held at

that in cash terms for the

Parliament. It is the fourth largest

anywhere in the world.

“We are getting two new

aircraft carriers, the A400m

transport plane, the ground strike

ﬁghter. We are proud of our

defence budget.”

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VOTERS will be guaranteed an

in-or-out referendum on Britain’s

European Union membership if

David Cameron wins the next

election.

Mr Cameron sought yesterday

to dampen speculation that his

poll promise could be ditched in

possible future coalition

negotiations if there was another

hung parliament.

Vowing to win a better deal for

Britain from Brussels, he said: “If

I’m prime minister, you will get

that renegotiation and that

referendum.” He said voters

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WELFARE beneﬁts for the jobless

could be cut further as voters are

still fed up that some claimants

are ripping off the system, Mr

Cameron indicated yesterday.

The Prime Minister signalled

the Government’s £26,000 limit

on beneﬁt claims could be

reduced in many parts of the

country to reﬂect local prices.

“Are there opportunities for

working out how this might work

in different parts of the country?

cases. A Government study to look

into the new policy will be announced

soon.

The Prime Minister promised to

look at overhauling the welfare state

to stop instant access to some

beneﬁts – such as tax credits and

child beneﬁt – for new arrivals who

have paid little UK tax or national

insurance.

Mr Cameron said: “I think there is

more we can do. One of the aspects

that we are reaching fairly early con-

clusion on is that we can no longer

grant legal aid to non-UK nationals

or for civil cases, people who are fac-

ing housing cases or beneﬁt cases.

“We need a proper residency test

for those cases and we’re going to

consult on introducing one.

“That is just one element of a huge

range of measures to make sure that

people who do come here are com-

ing here because there is a particu-

lar job of work they want to do –

rather than coming here because

they want to use the health service

or get a council house.”

Mr Cameron revealed that he had

recently chaired a meeting of the

ministerial group on migration con-

trol. He urged ministers not to be

persuaded against acting tough on

immigration by civil servants.

“Going through area after area,

I’ve told the ministers: tear up your

departmental brief, I’m not inter-

ested in what you were told to say

when you came to this meeting; rip

it up, think like a Conservative and

make sure you’re really doing what

is necessary to ask the difﬁcult ques-

tions in your department.

“Make sure that we’re a fair coun-

try and a welcoming country but not

a soft touch.”

much, much too high,” he said. “Two

hundred thousand a year is like

building two cities the size of

Birmingham. We were not able to

cope with that level of migration and

pressure on public services.

“We’ve seen the level of net migra-

tion come down by a quarter over

the last two- and-a-half years. I want

to see further progress.

“There is an enormous amount of

work to be done in looking at what

other European countries do.

“Are we more generous? Can we

make changes? Can we change the

way the beneﬁt system works? Can

we make more beneﬁts have a con-

tributory principle in some way to

make sure they’re not so immedi-

ately available to people?

“There are issues about housing,

issues about the health service and

access to hospitals.”

limit on who can come. Afterwards

you can work, but only in a graduate

job. In India I was pressed quite

hard – why can’t we work in non-

graduate jobs?

“I was very clear, including when

sitting among those 500 girls in the

Delhi college, I said we have unem-

ployed people in Britain who need

to be put into work.

“I’m not interested in people com-

ing to study in university, then stay-

ing on for ages in unskilled jobs.

That is not in our national interest.

“Our message is very clear. We

want immigration that will beneﬁt

Britain.”

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The Prime Minister insisted bring-

ing down the annual net ﬂow of

immigration – which exceeded

200,000 newcomers a year under

Labour – was one of his biggest

political motivations.

“Two million people over 10 years

net migration into the UK was just

Mr Cameron also defended his

appeal during his recent tour of

India for more Indian students to

come to Britain.

He said: “I wanted to send a mes-

sage that if you’ve got a place at a

university, if you can speak the Eng-

lish language, there isn’t an arbitrary

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frustration

over Clegg’s

broken pledge

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DAVID Cameron yesterday spoke of

the “immense frustration” of having

to work with Nick Clegg after his

betrayal of a key Coalition pledge.

And the Prime Minister massively

intensiﬁed the pressure on his

beleaguered deputy by ordering him

to fully investigate the sexual

misconduct claims against Lib Dem

peer Lord Rennard.

He said: “It’s very important they

get to the bottom of what’s

happened. I’m sure they will.”

His swipe came as Mr Clegg was

facing searching questions about his

knowledge of a string of harassment

claims against his former election

guru Lord Rennard.

With the Lib Dems engulfed in the

deepening scandal, Mr Cameron

made no secret of how his patience

with his Coalition partners was

running out. He hit out at the Lib

Dems for attempting to block welfare

reform and an overhaul of human

rights laws.

And he made clear his fury after

Mr Clegg withdrew support on the

Parliamentary boundary shake-up

expected to give the Tories up to

20 more MPs at the next election.

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Beleaguered Nick Clegg yesterday

with the deﬁcit and get things

moving and that’s what I’m

focused on.”

Turning to welfare reform, Mr

Cameron made clear that Tory

ministers were forced to drive

through their plan for an annual

£26,000 limit on household beneﬁt

claims in the face of bitter opposition

from the Lib Dems. “The cap is a

major step forward. There was

resistance around.

“Iain Duncan Smith, the Chancel-

lor and I drove this policy through.”

Mr Cameron also made clear his

party would ﬁght “very hard” to win

the Eastleigh constituency from the

Lib Dems in this week’s by-election.

Praising Tory candidate Maria

Hutchings he said: “We’ve got the

best candidate. But it’s a tough ﬁght

– winning by-elections in govern-

ment is not easy.”

¬ÊThe Lib Dems suffered another

blow last night when an opinion poll

suggested their support has fallen to

the lowest level since the party was

founded.

The survey by ComRes for the

Independent newspaper put Mr

Clegg’s party on a potential vote

share of eight per cent, behind the

UK Independence Party on nine.

“It is a source of considerable

frustration. I feel that we had a deal,”

Mr Cameron said, in a clear hint that

relations between the two Coalition

parties have hit a new low.

“I don’t have to test my memory

about it. It’s pretty much there in

black and white, it’s pretty much

there in the Coalition Agreement.”

Mr Clegg withdrew his support

after Tory MPs blocked Coalition

plans for House of Lords reform.

Senior Tories insist the boundary

changes were part of the deal that

gave the Lib Dems a referendum on

electoral reform.

Many Tory MPs fear the switch

could have sabotaged their hopes of

an overall Tory majority at the next

election. Mr Cameron said: “It’s

something

David Cameron

yesterday. The

picture behind

him on the right

was painted by

his young

daughter Nancy

who gave it to

him at Christmas

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that

immensely

frustrating,

not

just

for

personally, I think it’s unfair.

“There was a serious need to have

equal size seats. It’s totally unfair

that some seats have got 90,000

people and some have got 60,000. It’s

unfair, it’s undemocratic.

“But in the Coalition you just have

to get on. We have a task to do to

rescue the economy from the mess it

is left in, deal with the debts, deal

ANN Widdecombe could be in line

for a peerage, David Cameron

hinted yesterday.

The Prime Minister praised the

contribution to public life made by

the Daily Express columnist.

He suggested the former Tory

minister could be rewarded with a

seat in the House of Lords despite

being previously snubbed for the

honour.

“She’s a very accomplished

Conservative and I’m sure she’s got

a lot left to give in terms of public

service,” he told the Daily Express.

Miss Widdecombe has complained

before about being “deliberately”

snubbed for a peerage by the Prime

Minister.

“I’d be a liar if I didn’t say that an

exclusion that pointed didn’t stab

just a little,” she said after being left

off a list of Tory peers two years ago.

Some Conservatives are pressing

the Prime Minister to reward her

with a seat in the Lords this year.

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Former MP Ann Widdecombe

Daily Express - Tuesday, February 26th 2013.pdf

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