Stuck In The Traffick

It was good to hear Sir Anthony Steen at PMQs. His work against child-trafficking, and his long campaign to expose the disappearances from the care system, now risk having no one to continue them in Parliament. All because of some infelicitous, but undoubtedly accurate, remarks about how people were envious of his big house.

David Cameron’s and George Osborne’s deeply dodgy mortgage claims are all right. But, like the anti-war Douglas Hogg’s moat for which not a penny was paid, like Sir Peter Viggers’s duck house for which not a penny was paid, and like whatever it was that Ian Gibson did wrong (voting against the Iraq War, to be precise), this is not.

So trafficked children can, quite literally, get lost.