Print - Higher Pay, Not Benefits Lure Migrants to UK - Conservative MP - Novinite.com Higher pay rather than benefits are attracting migrants to the UK, a Conservative MP has argued amid fears of an influx of Bulgarian and Romanian workers as of the beginning of the new year. "My experience of immigrants is they come here to work [and] they work hard," Conservative John Baron said, as cited by BBC. John Baron warned that the government's benefit changes could "risk feeding a minority of people's views and prejudices about immigrants" and that pay was a more significant factor.