UK competition tsar calls for crackdown on utilities ‘ripping off’ customers

Article written by Gill Plimmer and originally published in The Financial Times Shareholders in water and energy monopolies should receive steady but unspectacular returns, says government adviser Britain’s water and energy watchdogs should be empowered to crack down on companies “ripping off” consumers and “causing harm to the economy”, a…

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Tech can create big, powerful citizen-consumers to erode the power of online network monopolies

I’m honoured to be this month’s ‘Parliamentary TechChampion’, because of the role technology can play in sharpening competition to create big, powerful citizen-consumers so markets work for people rather than the other way round. This is a key theme in my Government-commissioned report on Competition Policy, Power to the People…

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