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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/lib-dem-attacks-tories-eu-allies.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Jeremy Browne told an undercover reporter he believes the Conservatives' immigration policy is 'very harsh'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-lib-dem-attacks-tories-eu-allies.jpg" alt="Jeremy Browne told an undercover reporter he believes the Conservatives' immigration policy is 'very harsh'"/></a></p>
<p>A Liberal Democrat Foreign Office minister has branded the Tories&#8217; European allies &#8220;quite nutty&#8221; and &#8220;an embarrassment&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jeremy Browne also told an undercover reporter from The Daily Telegraph that he believed the Conservatives&#8217; immigration policy is &#8220;very harsh&#8221; and driven by &#8220;quite a lot of uncharitable instincts&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Browne is the latest Lib Dem minister to be caught by Telegraph reporters making disparaging remarks about their Conservative allies, underlining the tensions in the coalition.</p>
<p>Last year, the Conservatives broke away from the main centre-right grouping in the European Parliament to join the European Conservatives and Reformists &#8211; a coalition of small nationalist parties, some whom have faced accusations of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Mr Browne told the reporter, who was posing as a constituent in his Taunton Deane consistency: &#8220;They are quite nutty and that&#8217;s an embarrassment to them.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also attacked the Tories&#8217; approach to immigration, although he insisted that the Lib Dems are having a moderating effect on the Government&#8217;s policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Tories had a very harsh, in my view, immigration policy. That&#8217;s not to say I think that there shouldn&#8217;t be, you know, a level of immigration which can&#8217;t be assimilated in society &#8211; I&#8217;m not in favour of letting rip and letting everyone in &#8211; I think we need to have a proper, functioning policy,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;But the Conservative one I thought was driven by quite a lot of uncharitable instincts. I think with the involvement of the Lib Dems plus the more liberal-minded Tories we&#8217;ll end up with a policy which is more enlightened.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier, Business Secretary Vince Cable, who was the first minister to have his comments reported by the Telegraph, strongly criticised the newspaper&#8217;s methods, saying they risk undermining trust between MPs and their constituents.</p>
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