Tory MP Nicholas Soames declared that it would be "wrong to rush to judgment".

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MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, of the cross-party Balanced Migration group, have questioned the plans.

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Fellow Tory MP Nicholas Soames predicted a ban would leave "deep and abiding resentment" in the countryside.

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Conservative MP Nicholas Soames said that he backed the scrapping of the primogeniture rule but warned that the bill would "tinker away" with some of Britain's fundamental constitutional foundations.

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Nicholas Soames, co-chair of the all-party group on balanced migration, said he supported the coalition's aim to cut the numbers coming to the UK from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands.

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For the record, that group comprised Laura Sandys, Margot James, Stephen Dorrell, Ben Gummer, Ben Wallace, Richard Ottaway, Bob Walter, Robert Buckland, Neil Carmichael, Caroline Spelman, Nicholas Soames, Peter Luff, Jane Ellison, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and Kris Hopkins.

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Labour MP Frank Field and Conservative Nicholas Soames - who campaign on the issue of immigration - said it was "more evidence of the pressure that uncontrolled immigration will place on our population, and therefore our quality of life".

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