Just over two weeks since concerns over immigration pushed many Britons to back Brexit in a referendum, Home Secretary Theresa May and energy minister Andrea Leadsom both promised to restrict free movement of citizens from the EU. "If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union and part of that will be control of free movement," May told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. LONDON:Both candidates seeking to become Britain's next prime minister vowed in interviews published on Friday to impose tougher rules on EU citizens newly arriving in Britain, as they face a ballot of party members to choose David Cameron's successor. Around 150,000 grassroots members of the ruling Conservative Party will choose a successor to Cameron by Sept. 9. She tweeted late on Friday: "Truly appalling and the exact opposite of what I said.

Source: The Star July 08, 2016 22:41 UTC