Opportunities for an enhanced UK-Latin America relationship

The election of a new Labour Party government in July 2024 opens up possibilities for reviewing and refreshing diplomatic and trade relations between the UK and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

This briefing paper sets out what some of those opportunities may be, but it attempts to do so from a position of realism, namely the fact that successive UK governments have placed relations with the region relatively low down their list of priorities.

Sections include...

  • Difficult political cycles
  • The 'below 5%' problem
  • Global shifts: The US is neglecting Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Global shifts: Europe takes a protectionist turn
  • Global shifts: Chinese trade and influence on the rise
  • Early indicators of new British foreign and trade policy
  • From the manifesto
  • UK opportunity: the energy transition
  • UK opportunity: nearshoring

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