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Thriving in a Globalised World – A Strategy for Britain

Wed, 28 Oct 2009

A policy paper on the Liberal Democrat domestic responses to globalisation.

Globalisation has brought enormous benefits to the UK, but we also recognise its challenges: from an unbalanced economy over-reliant on particular industries, for example, or to regions suffering from foreign competition, or to communities facing a sudden influx of migrant labour. Unless government develops effective solutions to these challenges, many people may come to see globalisation as a threat, rather than the opportunity that it should be – particularly in the midst of a major recession.

The below policy paper therefore sets out the Liberal Democrat response to the impact of globalisation on the British economy and society.

Our key proposals are:

• Working to make the UK economy competitive and well placed to respond to the challenges of globalisation, ensuring that the UK workforce is as skilled, innovative and adaptable as possible, and promoting greater diversification of the economy.
  
  
• Welcoming and managing immigration, and protecting the wages and employment conditions of migrant (and non-migrant) labour.
  
  
• Ensuring that moves towards environmental sustainability are not achieved simply by exporting polluting industries offshore.