PM defends plan to charge migrants who get NHS treatment

David Cameron has defended Government plans to begin charging migrants treated in accident and emergency departments, insisting the proposals were enforceable.

The Prime Minister said it was right to charge foreign visitors for using the NHS, as he insisted that future migrants to Britain would face more stringent rules before being able to move here.

Mr Cameron would not be drawn on how many people he expected to come to Britain after immigration restrictions were lifted for Romanians and Bulgarians.

Speaking on the Sky News Murnaghan programme, UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who last year said a “Romanian crime wave” would sweep the country on January 1, said: “We don’t want hostility.

“And we are not scapegoating Romanians and Bulgarians, we are scapegoating almost the entire political class in Westminster, who have allowed open borders since 2004.”