My Customer: Power to the people

“If competition works in favour of consumers rather than companies (or of business customers rather than their suppliers) then our post-covid, post-Brexit economy will grow faster and our society will be both happier, fairer and more just as well.” That’s just one of many headline comments from an independent report into the…

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BCLP: The Penrose Report – are we heading for a “new normal” in UK competition policy?

In the autumn of 2020, the UK Government commissioned John Penrose MP to carry out an independent review of the UK’s competition policy. Penrose was asked to review how the UK’s competition regime should evolve post-Brexit to drive economic recovery from COVID-19, level up the regions, increase consumer trust, support…

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Video Games Industry responds to John’s Competition Report

TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video games industry, said today that the UK Government should adopt a more robust approach to foster healthy competition in the UK. TIGA made the comments following the publication of John Penrose MP’s proposals to update the UK’s competition and consumer regime. John…

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Slaughter & May: The Penrose Report: A roadmap for the UK’s post-Brexit competition and consumer law regime?

Today, Conservative MP John Penrose published his independent report into how the UK can enhance its competition regime now that the Brexit transition period has ended.  The report also considers how competition policy can support the economic recovery from COVID-19. The report, entitled “Power to the People”, covers a broad…

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