Mass EU migration latest news update: British laments EU migrants stealing jobs; new research says mass migration good for British economy

The Office of the National Statistics has confirmed that there is a rise of 215,000 EU migrants working in Britain. That totals to a total of 2.4 million EU migrant workers as of 2015 from the 1.8 million reported in 2014. 

It was the first time the numbers have exceeded the 2 million mark and many British nationals are not happy about it.

Madeleine Sumption, director of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, commented that the increase was not surprising with regard to the levels of migration the U.K. has experienced in the past two years as well as the high employment rates EU migrants have in the country.

This increase puts more pressure on Prime Minister James Cameron after his announcement to limit EU migrants' access to welfare benefits in an attempt to discourage EU net migration to the U.K.

"These figures are staggering. But as long as we are in the EU, we have absolutely no control over our borders." Tory MP Nigel Evans said. "As we move towards introducing a living wage, those numbers can only rise unless something dramatic is done."

Ukip leader Nigel Farage, on the other hand, strongly declared, "Let's leave the EU and control our borders."

There was further agitation last night when Tony Blair declared that the mass EU migration is good for Britain. Express reports the former Prime Minister saying that it is "good with appropriate rules."

Contrary to this public outcry that EU immigrants are grabbing jobs from the British, the mass migration is contributing to the growth of the U.K. economy. A research from the University College of London shows that the EU immigrants are not a bane to the U.K. economy since they pay more taxes instead of taking out state benefits. 

The research also disqualifies the myth that most EU migrants are baristas and plumbers. Sixty percent of these new immigrants are university graduates. Translating that to numbers, that is a total of about 900,000 out of the 2 million EU migrants who enter the U.K.