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…
Yesterday I posted about what the CMA can do to help restore stability and protect its independent decision-making after the replacement of its Chair. Today I want to focus on…
My old friends and colleagues at the CMA could be forgiven for feeling bruised at the moment. They heard the government announce that their Chairman was being replaced. Voluntary redundancies…
Some business leaders fear competition policy and regulation are jeopardising the government’s economic growth mission. In this paper for the Social Market Foundation, Stuart Hudson explores whether there is a…
In recent years there have been five main criticisms levelled at the CMA about its approach to mergers:
It is more aggressive than other antitrust authorities
It is more hostile…