Using most search engines isn’t free, it’s a transaction that requires something from you (usually information). John talks with Radio 4 about the need to know more about what we are getting and what it is costing us in the Digital Age, so we know whether it’s good value or…
This article was written by Rob Parsons for The Yorkshire Post. It can be found here. Trading standards teams should be given extra powers and minimum staffing levels in a move which would “raise the local competitive temperature for all firms in every part of the country” and aid the…
This article was written by John for Conservative Home to share ideas within his policy paper, Power To The People. Markets aren’t the ‘law of the jungle’ as the political left always claims. Competition needs rules to work properly so consumers have rights when something goes wrong, staff aren’t exploited,…
John Penrose MP has today (16 February) published proposals to update the UK’s competition and consumer regime. In September 2020, Mr Penrose was invited by the government to conduct an independent review of UK competition policy, to see how it can be reformed as the country begins life as an independent…