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Home Brexit Britain’s chance to strut its global stuff Brexit Britain’s chance to strut its global stuff The UK’s attempt to position itself as some kind of honest broker is no joke World Economy News 19 Jan 2021 • 7 min read Hello from Brussels. Two days to go until Joe Biden’s inauguration, and people here are assuming that surely even Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t have much time left to do destructive things on trade. Last week, outgoing US trade representative Robert Lighthizer topped up the toxins in the transatlantic dispute chalice before handing it on, his department declaring Austria, Spain and the UK to be discriminating against the US with digital services taxes. Along with its similar previous finding against France, and the deferral of the decision to put tariffs on French goods, he’s created a tricky legacy for the Biden administration, as we explained last wee ....