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The Industry and Regulators Select Committee has published my written evidence to its inquiry into the regulators and growth.
If you’re interested you can find…
The proposals to reform decision-making in CMA merger cases and market investigations have sparked a lively debate in the competition community.
Some of my…
Reform UK's head of policy, Zia Yusuf, has given the clearest indication yet of how the party would approach economic regulation and competition policy if…
The past year has seen unprecedented political intervention in the work of antitrust authorities.
In the US, President Donald Trump dismissed two commissioners at…
The UK government has published an update and next steps on its Regulation Action Plan. Although the focus of its press release is on the…
In a previous post I wrote about why the UK’s Labour government changed its approach to competition policy and what this meant for the CMA.…
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The past year has seen unprecedented political intervention in the work of antitrust authorities.
In the US, President Donald Trump dismissed two commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission in…
Independent regulators are increasingly under fire — so why does their independence matter? How much power should they be granted? And how can they be held accountable?
The spotlight is…
Writing recently in the Economist, John Vickers and Bill Kovacic compared the UK government’s competition policy unfavourably with the one pursued last time Labour was in office, from 1997 to…
One aspect of the Thames Water saga has been relatively unexplored in the political and media commentary. How did the water companies get away with taking on so much debt…
One of the most critical challenges facing Britain’s Labour government is how to promote business investment while still protecting consumers.
On one hand, Labour wants to promote economic growth…
The SMF’s new Senior Fellow, Stuart Hudson, explains how Keir Starmer’s government can deliver regulatory reform in practice
The government has promised an overhaul of Britain’s regulatory system in order…
From Blair and Brown to Starmer and Reeves
As the general election get closer, those of us who worked for the last Labour government often get asked how different we…
Avoid the technocratic trap, the wishful thinking trap, the mediamacro trap and the false analogy trap
The American economist Alan Blinder once set out what he called the lamppost theory…
How the economy affects the outcome of elections - and what this means for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer
The Budget post-match analysis has included plenty of speculation over whether,…
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