GOVERNMENT and fashion giants are “clearly failing” on a “vast scale” to protect workers and the environment, socialist MP Claudia Webbe has told the Morning Star.

The MP for Leicester East said that Britain must do its part immediately as she backed a new War On Want report calling for workers and communities bearing the brunt of climate change to be at the heart of plans to make the industry sustainable.

She said exploitative employers bear a “huge responsibility” for building an industry at the expense of the poorest and most vulnerable, but that the “most guilty are the vast corporations and brands who insist on the lowest cost regardless of the consequences, while governments stand by and do nothing.”