Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Royal Assent
House of Commons debates, 20 March 2007, 3:44 pm
Anthony Steen (Totnes, Conservative)
The Deputy Prime Minister is right in what he says about William Wilberforce, and the whole House would support him, but does he agree that slavery has not disappeared? We have a new form of slavery, which is the trafficking of human beings. Does the right hon. Gentleman think it right to say that slavery has disappeared when it has not?