While the talk in the EU is turning to heavyweight corporate champions that can tackle the U.S. and China, the man tasked with making Britain more competitive is not fully convinced that big is beautiful. For John Penrose, a Conservative parliamentarian who has to write a review on how to turbocharge competition…
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John wrote this article for The Times newspaper. Adam Smith never bought car insurance. Or used an internet search engine. Or took out a triple-play broadband-TV-phone contract. If he had, the father of modern economics might have been less confident that free competition between suppliers ensures all customers get a…
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During the pandemic, the Weston Mercury has kept readers up to date with the latest updates on Covid-19 and helped people access vital support from networks of volunteers set up across the district. We published contact details of support networks in towns and villages which were set up to help…
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