Article 6982N Jess Phillips and Iain Duncan Smith lead calls to criminalise ‘cuckooing’

Jess Phillips and Iain Duncan Smith lead calls to criminalise ‘cuckooing’

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Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
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Practice of taking over people's homes should be included in an overhaul of the Modern Slavery Act, say MPs

Cuckooing" in the homes of vulnerable people by drug gangs should become a criminal offence, according to a call from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) thinktank which has gathered cross-party backing.

Labour MP Jess Phillips and the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith are leading calls for the practice - which was spotlighted in the BBC series Happy Valley - to be criminalised as part of an overhaul of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act.

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