Online fashion retailer, Boohoo has promised to investigate how its clothes have come to be made at a Leicester factory where conditions were ‘totally unacceptable' and 'fell woefully short of any standards acceptable in any workplace’.
A report in this weekend's Sunday Times found that staff in the factory in Leicester were being paid as little as £3.50 per hour for working in the factory and were not given face masks to prevent against Covid-19.
Boohoo, which also owns brands such as Pretty Little Thing and Nasty Gal have promised to end relationships with any suppliers who fell short of its code of conduct.
But questions remain over what this means for the fast fashion industry and what can be taken from this.
Speaking to Dermot and Dave on Today FM, Annie Kelly, journalist with The Guardian and editor of The Guardian’s Modern-Day Slavery in Focus series spoke about the report and her hopes that this will change the way we think about what's in our shopping basket.
