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  The Coalition is at odds over a key Conservative election pledge to impose a strict annual limit on immigration. Vince Cable led a growing rebellion against enforcing a draconian cap on numbers coming into the country, demanding 'as liberal a policy as possible'.
  The row came as it emerged that immigration and rising birth rates mean that Britain accounted for nearly a third of the growth in population across the whole of Europe last year, with 412,000 added to the UK total.
  Mr Cable, visiting India with David Cameron, said 'It's no great secret that in my department and me personally, we want to see an open economy, and as liberal an immigration policy as it's possible to have. (What that means I 'm not sure.)
  
  Gerard Batten, of the UK Independence Party, said: 'This coalition has accepted that it cannot control EU migration, and now it tells us it doesn't want to control non-EU migration. What part of this policy has anyone voted for?'

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