There was a 73 per cent increase in the number of ‘job-seeking’ EU immigrants in the country in the three years to 2011, according to the European Commission.
The findings led Boris Johnson to urge the Prime Minister to demand a change in EU laws to delay migrants’ access to benefits.
Meanwhile, a poll has found that two-thirds of the public want ministers to take ‘drastic action’ to cut immigration.
Mr Johnson said migrants should have to work for ‘quite a long time’ before they can claim any benefits in this country.
The London Mayor said it was wrong that ‘we have no control over the time lapse between arrival in this country to work and the ability to withdraw benefits’.
And he suggested the Prime Minister should press for a change in the law as part of his renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the EU.
‘That is something that could be considered by the Government for the renegotiation of the European Treaty that is about to come up,’ he said.
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