{"id":484696,"date":"2025-10-09T04:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484696\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:08:22","slug":"eu-citizens-living-in-uk-shouldnt-be-allowed-welfare-benefits-says-tory-rising-star-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484696\/","title":{"rendered":"EU citizens living in UK shouldn\u2019t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lam, who became a member of parliament last year, said it is her \u201cpersonal view\u201d that EU citizens should be excluded from the benefits system.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride on Monday announced \u00a323 billion in welfare cuts under a future Conservative government by reducing eligibility for non-British citizens \u2014 but it\u2019s unclear whether these figures include EU citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances essentially have changed in that the volume is so much higher than anybody thought that it was going to be,\u201d Lam argued, saying high immigration levels since Brexit meant it was \u201creally wrong\u201d that British voters are \u201csaddled with hundreds of billions of pounds to pay in benefits and in state support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether it was wrong to renege on promises agreed under the previous Conservative administration, the Tory MP said \u201cthe whole point of having a status like EU SS [Settled Status] or indefinite leave to remain is that that is still a live conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lam added: \u201cIf somebody is entitled to everything that comes with being a British citizen, then they should make the choice to become a British citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lam, who became a member of parliament last year, said it is her \u201cpersonal view\u201d that EU citizens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,1193,393,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,40,51100,48,16,15,12340,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-484696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-politics","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-mel-stride","19":"tag-rights","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-welfare","23":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342246486982817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}