Sex slavery taints Wilberforce anniversary - Sunday Times - Times Online

Sex slavery taints Wilberforce anniversary - Sunday Times - Times Online: "Sex slavery taints Wilberforce anniversary
Steven Swinford and Roger Waite
THE government’s failure to rein in human trafficking — described by the United Nations as the modern equivalent of slavery — is threatening to mar official plans to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

As Labour plans �20m worth of events to mark the anniversary in March, the Home Office is preparing to release research in February that puts the number of trafficked prostitutes in Britain at 4,000. "