"The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has outlined a package of measures to restrict immediate access to welfare benefits for new European migrants coming to Britain...Labour's decision to more than match the government's attempt to tighten new migrants' access to benefits and public services comes in advance of the complete opening of the British labour market to Bulgarians and Romanians at the end of the year."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/07/labour-measures-restrict-benefits-arrivals

Hmmm, interesting...