Welcome then to the Gangmaster Licensing Authority. We should all wish chairman Paul Whitehouse the very best of luck in his quest to eliminate illegal gangmasters from the UK fresh produce landscape.

It is unlikely to be an easy task. The criminal gangmaster labyrinth, which - Whitehouse estimates - hides up to £5 billion of unpaid taxes each year, is notoriously tough to navigate.

However, it would appear that the UK’s retailers are more or less united behind the cause. Tesco’s Terry Babbs certainly left those at last week’s meeting in no doubt that his organisation is not prepared to countenance any further abuse of the law. It is not often that retailers sit together with a common cause, but they are without fail the first port of call when the media is seeking an angle for any article on the use or abuse of illegal labour. For honest labour providers too, licensing cannot arrive quickly enough.

But there is another tranche of the industry that has to play its part fully. Labour users cannot afford to take their eyes off this particular effort. It will also be an offence to use unlicensed labour providers, and there will be no second chances for suppliers that fall foul of the GLA; its work will be carried out in the full glare of the media spotlight.

Whitehouse quite rightly is more than happy for that to be the case - his desire to succeed should not be under-estimated.