In Bolsover, a constituency near Sheffield, 71 per cent of voters opted to leave the European Union. If you want to understand why, look no further than its most infamous resident – Sports Direct.
The cheap-as-chips sportswear company has an 800,000 square foot warehouse at Shirebrook, on the site of a coal mine that shut in 1993. It has been described as a Victorian workhouse, a gulag. After stories of a worker forced to give birth in a toilet, evidence of regular visits by paramedics and workers paid less than the minimum wage, MPs investigated.
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