This post is based on my contributions at two events this week on the subject of how Britain’s Labour government thinks about competition, growth and the CMA.
The first…
It was a pleasure to take part in the recent symposium in Oxford chaired by Professor Ariel Ezrachi on the balance between competitiveness, growth, consumer welfare and other societal goals.…
Mainstream parties in western countries are not short of advice on why they have been losing support to populists in recent years, or on the kinds of policy prescriptions that…
The UK government has today published the final version of its strategic steer to the CMA. Helpfully, the Department for Business and Trade has also published a short note…
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…
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…
The government’s current deregulatory push – from planning reform to financial services – has led some on the centre-left to ask whether such a policy approach really counts as progressive.…
There is concern in the competition community on both sides of the Atlantic right now about the future of independent antitrust authorities.
In the UK, we have seen the removal…
There have been two significant announcements today relating to the CMA. The UK government has published a draft strategic steer and the CMA has published a set of proposals for…