Yesterday I visited the beloved Sutton Coldfield institution: ReUsers and Wood Shack on Norris Way. I love the the way this charity shop restores and recycles unwanted furniture, bikes, wood and electrical goods, saving them from landfill and creating the circular economy we aspire to have. However, I did not know that the charity behind the shop, Jericho, is much more radically caring. The Jericho Fountataion helps and employs people who are the victims of human trafficking and forced into modern slavery in Britain. Those people, who are generally not the refugees arriving in small boats, are entrapped by organised crime, trafficked to the UK and get forced into bonded labour at car washes, nail salons, brothels, drug manufacturers, etc. We have to crack down hard on traffickers and those who enslave people, but we must also get rid of the hostile environment of our immigration services that harms the victims of this appalling black market of labour. When you hear politicians petulantly say “illegal immigrants” this election, remember, that these are the people they are talking about.