DHAKA: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has passionately urged other EU leaders to support his ‘reasonable’ proposals for far-reaching curbs on welfare benefits for migrants.

Cameron said lower EU migration would be a priority in future negotiations on the UK’s membership and he said would ‘rule nothing out’ if he did not get the changes he wanted.

Under his plans, migrants will have to wait four years for certain benefits, reports the BBC.

Brussels said the ideas were ‘part of the debate’ to be ‘calmly considered’.

But UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the PM was ‘behind the curve’ on immigration, while Labor said Cameron had ‘no credibility’ on the subject.

In a long-awaited speech in a factory in the West Midlands, Cameron said he was confident he could change the basis of EU migration into the UK and therefore campaign for the UK to stay in the EU in a future referendum planned for 2017.

But he warned that if the UK’s demands fall on ‘deaf ears’ he will ‘rule nothing out’ - the strongest hint to date he could countenance the UK leaving the EU.

BDST: 1834 HRS, NOV 28, 2014