'Ban goods with links to forced workers'

BRITAIN faces being a “dumping ground” for £19billion of goods made by forced labour, ministers are warned.

- By David Williamson

A lack of effective safeguards makes it “inevitable” such items are on sale, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said.

The MPs and peers want a legal ban on such goods, with fines if firms fail to do “due diligence” on their supply chains.