Why anyone should defend Thai prostitutes operating in Britain is beyond me. We are a sovereign state and entitled to take any steps necessary to defend our borders from those deliberately intending to come and break our laws.

I've worked at a sex work project for most of the past six years and I strongly suspect the 'victims' of this will be mightily pissed off at being 'rescued'. Such action may also make it harder to engage with other sex workers here.

Specialist projects working with Thai women say that the overwhelming majority know exactly what they're getting into. The only deception involved can involve the costs of getting here.

But they chose to come, because it still pays a lot better than the alternatives, including being part of the enormous Thai sex industry catering to Thais and foreign sex tourists.

Millions of migrants do whatever it takes to make a better life. Some clean toilets for six quid an hour, others sell sexual services for twenty times that. Who's being exploited the most?

Will the women be allowed to continue working here? (Both selling and buying sexual services from adults is legal in the UK - what's not is soliciting on the street or running a brothel / escort agency.)

No, they're likely to be kicked back to Thailand, still owing money, along with enough publicity to ensure that there's no chance of pretending they were doing anything other than working as prostitutes here, rather than the 'waitressing' their families told everyone the money came from. That'll do their prospects no end of good...