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Brexit will make it harder to work with EU partners on international tax avoidance, and leave UK weak against US corporate behemoths.

Trade secretary is wasting time chasing phantoms. He should focus on humdrum task of making sure we don’t lose deals we already have.

Trade secretary used to trumpet comprehensive deal with US. Now he’s focusing on just services. Does he have a clue about what that means?

While US president is trying to rip up Iran nuclear deal, EU is standing up for peace and order. All the more reason to stay close to it.

63% of our trade is with EU or countries it has deals with. Not only are we jeopardising this. In rest of world, we may go to back of queue.

Tory chaos raises risk of no deal. But when public sees that, it may decide it doesn’t want to charge like lemmings over a cliff.

PM’s goal of keeping things much as they are is good. But it won’t come easy. One also wonders why we’re quitting EU if this is our goal.

Bombardier tariffs show folly of sucking up to Trump. If we quit EU, he’ll just bully us like he’s bullying Canada.

Brexiters said new deals with rest of world would outweigh loss of trade to EU. We’ll actually lose ground in other countries too.

As talks falter and global trade deals slip further into the future, the government must get real over trade continuity after March 2019.

Getting a decent trade deal with the EU-27 is far more urgent than the distant prospect of a UK/US agreement

The UK’s dismal productivity has long been a puzzle. Brexit can only make our performance even worse.