As Keir Starmer welcomed business leaders to last week’s investment summit in London, a story appeared in the Financial Times suggesting the new UK government had the country’s economic regulators…
On Monday, people across the globe will remember the first anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Except, in practice, it’s going to be a bit more…
A few weeks ago I wrote about John Vickers’ recent defence of consumer welfare as the guiding principle of competition law and policy. Some contrary views to John’s were then…
There is plenty of speculation in the competition community about what the new UK government means for the CMA and its approach to enforcement. Will Labour want the CMA to…
In this blog for the Social Market Foundation, Stuart Hudson – former CMA Director of Strategy – argues that an incoming Labour government will need competitive markets to drive growth…
The UK’s independent regulators are again under fire from politicians. The City Minister, Bim Afolami, has criticised ‘overbearing and interfering regulators’ and called for the next government to seek cross-party…
I enjoyed listening to this interview with my friend and former colleague Bill Kovacic on Nick Levy’s excellent Antitrust Review podcast.
In the podcast, Bill talks about what first attracted…
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…
The FCA should think twice - but so should companies calling for political intervention
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed changing its approach to naming companies that are subject…