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- ↑ Sunday Times, Prufrock: A great job for the Tory boy as all is forgiven, published 25 February 2007, accessed 3 January 2021
- ↑ Sancroft International, Reports & Insights, accessed 3 January 2021
- ↑ Sancroft and Tussell, The Sancroft-Tussell Report: Eliminating modern slavery in public procurement, second edition, accessed 24 August 2021
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