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 my submission here (pdf and…
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 former colleagues at the CMA…
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 it were to win power…
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…
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 growth duty for regulators, 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. In this post I want…
There was quite a lot for UK competition nerds to enjoy at yesterday’s BVCA summit.
Sarah Cardell said some things which, on the face of it, sound quite unusual coming…
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…
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…