By James Chapman PUBLISHED: 05:11 EST, 9 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:17 EST, 10 January 2014 David Cameron’s populist attacks on immigration risk ‘destroying the future’ of the British people, a senior EU official has claimed in an extraordinary attack on an elected Prime Minister. Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, accused Mr Cameron of fuelling fears of an 'invasion' and claimed Britons claiming ‘much more’ in benefits than EU migrants. It is the latest broadside from the continent aimed at the Prime Minister since he complained about child benefit being exported across the EU and urged other European leaders to curb immigration.
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Vice-President of European Commission in extraordinary attack on PM
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Viviane Reding accuses the Prime Minister of indulging in populist rhetoric
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Dismisses the idea of 'invasion' and benefits tourism as untrue
The Prime Minister insisted it was wrong that the British taxpayer is giving cash to 40,000 children who live elsewhere in the @placeholder.