While I’m quite critical of the Conservative green paper on international development, it does at least say this on page 39:
‘We are also enthusiastic about the achievements and future potential of the Fair Trade movement, which allows British consumers to send a voluntary signal, through the market, about the conditons in which they want their goods produced.’
Given this fairlu unequivocal support for Fairtrade from the Conservative hierarchy (though couched in unnecessary free market rhetoric), I wonder if the Conservative administration of West Lancashire Borough Council will reconsider its ideological opposition to it, and put forward a motion similar to the one put by Labour, and rejected by the Conservatives, in 2007.
They may be asking a similar question in Conservative-administered High Wycombe.
