The UK’s Modern Slavery Act is 10 years old on 26 th March 2025. Murray Hunt , Director of Oxford University’s Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre , asks what we have learnt both about how most effectively to tackle modern slavery, and about the role of research and evidence in addressing such global human rights challenges in politically polarised times. Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who can justifiably take the political credit for the passage of the