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Cruel block on housing help to start in April

Leading Tory and Labour politicians rushed to announce punitive measures against immigrants yesterday in order to woo bigoted voters away from Ukip.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced in the Daily Mail that immigrants from the EU will lose all entitlement to housing benefit from April.

This is in addition to a new ban on claiming out-of-work benefits until they have been living in Britain for three months.

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