By Alistair Smout and Andrea Shalal
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain spent months buttering up Donald Trump, keeping calm in the face of the U.S. president's tariff-led assault on global trade, before deciding late on Wednesday to drop its demands for a comprehensive deal and take a quick but limited win instead.
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