article_snippet: Last November the home secretary, Theresa May, described the widespread scale of abuse as 'shocking' Crime cartels are in control of thousands of modern day slaves within Britain, a government regulator has claimed.
article_snippet: But Mr Broatbent critcised the sentences which had been handed out to those convicted of using modern day slaves.
article_snippet: Mr Broadbent told The Times: 'Slavery was abolished 200 years ago
article_snippet: The government's Modern Slavery Bill, launched by the home secretary last year and currently going through Parliament, aims to provide new powers to protect people who are trafficked and held against The government's Modern Slavery Bill, launched by the home secretary last year and currently going through Parliament will. '
article_snippet: The first step to eradicating the scourge of modern slavery is acknowledging and confronting the scourge of modern slavery existence,' she told the Guardian at the time. '
article_snippet: The modern slavery minister, Karen Bradley, told the BBC previously the issue was a hidden crime. '
article_snippet: Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Labour would crackdown on modern day slavery to stop immigrants being exploited and local workers being undercut.