Earlier this summer Leicester, in central England, and its thriving textiles industry found itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. As the government was starting to ease coronavirus lockdown measures, the city of around 355,000 people became a COVID-19 hotspot, prompting officials to reimpose the social distancing regime. This in turn led to renewed allegations modern slavery is rampant in its textiles sector — and that it had…
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