MPs called yesterday for new laws to criminalise people who buy sex.

A report by the all-party parliamentary group on prostitution and the global sex trade (APPG) recommended the move after finding current legislation "fails to protect the vulnerable."

In the report, Redbridge Council head of crime partnerships Mark Benbow said: "The police do the easy part, which is target the women involved, rather than the more difficult, which is the men behind it."