The proposals are likely to be at the heart of the Conservatives’ plans to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the European Union ahead of a proposed in-out referendum in 2017. Mr Johnson says that under current laws Britain is powerless to prevent large numbers of people from all over the EU coming to Britain. He says: “The voters aren’t fools. They have spotted the incoherence — and what they object to is not so much the immigrants themselves; what makes people angry is the sense that the whole thing is out of control.