Steel yourself: UK trade policy is suffering post-Brexit drift

The UK is having an immensely confusing debate about the steel industry and rule-following.

This is partly because, in the moral morass that is Downing Street, it was steel tariffs that reportedly prompted the resignation of Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser Lord Christopher Geidt. He has since said this was merely one example of a broader disregard for international law.

And it is partly because the government’s approach to both trade…