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  Vince Cable should resign over immigration remarks, says Tory MP
  Nigel Mills criticises business secretary for saying Conservative rhetoric recalled Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech
  
  Vince Cable said the Tories were creating a panic in Britain about the scale of migration from the European Union.
  
  A Tory MP leading the opposition to lifting controls on Romania and Bulgaria has called for Vince Cable to step down from the cabinet after the business secretary warned that Conservative rhetoric on immigration was reminiscent to Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech.
  
  Nigel Mills said: "It would be very hard for him to sit around the cabinet table having effectively compared his Conservative colleagues to Enoch Powell, which is an utterly ridiculous thing to have done. Mr Cable's always had a rather creative interpretation of what collective responsibility ought to look like but these comments, coming on the back of some would say completely sensible policy announcements by the prime minister to restrict welfare for people newly arrived here [who] can't claim until they've paid in - it just looks completely out of touch with the sentiments of most of the British people.
  
  "What he said yesterday was ridiculously over the top and ill-judged remarks. We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak
  
  and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
  
  The extent of the bitter personal poison seeping into some of the coalition's key policy disputes was revealed on Sunday when Cable accused the Conservatives of grubbing for Ukip votes with irresponsible and populist rhetoric.

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