In
a debate which took place in the House of Lords yesterday on the Modern
Slavery Bill, Lord Blackheath makes a startling revelation. He
tells his fellow peers that whilst working for the Australian Civil
Service in London, he was tasked with herding, as he puts it, small
children on to boats at Tilbury, for transportation to Australia.
Blackheath says:
“They did not have names; they did not know who their
parents were, or where they came from, and they were completely
terrified.”