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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Ministers ‘failing to protect’ people trafficked to UK as modern slaves

Women with mouths gagged protest against modern slavery
Walk for Freedom, a protest against modern slavery, London, 14 October 2017. Photograph: Stephen Chung/LNP/Rex/Shutterstock

Ministers are failing to protect people trafficked to Britain as modern slaves, the government’s own expert has said.

Sara Thornton, the UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner, said the law needed changing so those established as victims of traffickers would be more likely to be granted protection and allowed to stay in the UK.

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