british home secretary drawing up plans to prevent flooding of greeks to Britian

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May pledges to stop Greek migrants flooding into Britain if they are forced to pull out of the Euro

* Fears millions of Greeks will lose their jobs and be forced to search for work abroad
* Britain seen as a safe haven because it is outside the single currency
* May: Government is 'looking at the trends' on immigration from European economies

By Daniel Miller

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Concerns: Theresa May fears a Grexit could mean migrants flooding into Britain to look for work

Concerns: Theresa May fears a Grexit could mean migrants flooding into Britain to look for work

The government is drawing emergency plans over fears Britain will be flooded with migrants from Greece and other European nations should the eurozone crisis deepen, Home Secretary Theresa May has revealed.

Should Greece leave the euro and go bankrupt, as many predict will happen at the start of next year, millions could lose their jobs and be forced to search for work abroad.

There are fears too that contagion could spread to other weak eurozone countries and because Britain is outside the single currency it is widely regarded as an economic safe haven.

The Home Secretary told The Daily Telegraph that 'work is ongoing' to deal with large movements of people in the event of the break-up of the single currency.

Mrs May did not indicate the sort of response that was under consideration.

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In normal circumstances the Government's hands are tied because EU nationals are largely entitled to live and work anywhere in the single market.
Restrictions: Mrs May suggested emergency border controls are being drawn up

Restrictions: Mrs May suggested emergency border controls are being drawn up

But she said the Government was 'looking at the trends' on immigration from struggling European economies.

She said there was no evidence of increased migration at present, she added that it was 'difficult to say how it is going to develop in coming weeks'.

Asked whether emergency immigration controls are under consideration, Mrs May said: 'It is right that we do some contingency planning on this (and) that is work that is ongoing.'

Prime Minister David Cameron cast doubt on the future of the euro last week when he warned the eurozone that it 'either has to make up or it is looking at a potential break-up'.

'That's the choice they have to make and it is a choice they can't long put off,' he told the Commons.
Riots: Greece has been hit by bouts of civil disorder in recent months

Deepening crisis: Greece has been hit by bouts of civil disorder in recent months with many predicting they will leave the euro at the start of next year

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund today took an uncompromising hard line with Greece, saying it was time for it to pay its debts.

In an interview with the Guardian the managing director of the IMF said she had more sympathy with children in Africa than those in Greece, where people were 'trying to escape tax all the time'.

Asked whether she worried about the economic and social impact of austerity in the Mediterranean country, she told the paper: 'No, I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education.

'I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.'

She added: 'Do you know what? As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time.

'All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.'