With support through retraining and updating their skills. To help companies identify and then diversify into new markets or products. As politicians we must reject the soft, easy choice that the difficulties that might be experienced should be enough for us to call halt and put up barriers to free trade. This might be popular in the short term but it would prevent our country reaping the much bigger and permanent gains that come from free trade. Candle makers were not allowed to block the introduction of electricity.
Free trade causes change and boosts economic growth.
It is about greater competition which weakens the power of vested interests. It provides greater opportunities and improved standards of living for millions rather than provide privileges for a few. Of course the alternative view is often put that globalisation simply plays into the hands of the big multinationals. They can operate through cosy cartels and that by removing trade barriers we are simply allowing them to monopolise an even bigger market. I don't believe this approach stands up to scrutiny.