In UK, Senior Labour MP Calls for Law to Tackle Uyghur Forced Labor

The UK should introduce its own version of the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), said Labour Party’s former minister Liam Byrne. Byrne, elected last week as the chair of the Business and Trade Committee, called on the Labour government to tighten rules on supply chain reporting—a promise he said the Conservative government has failed to deliver. “I’d like to see the new government follow through on the promise made—but never delivered—by the Conservatives in the 2022 Queens Speech—to strengthen the modern slavery act and toughen up requirements on supply chain reporting,” Byrne said, adding that doing so will re-establish the UK’s leadership of trusted trade....