Politico: Britain looks to chart different course from EU on industrial champions

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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Telegraph: John Penrose to review UK competition laws ahead of autumn Budget

John Penrose has previously proposed scrapping communications, energy and water watchdogs and replacing them with single body. Tory MP who called for the abolition of the energy and broadcasting watchdogs has been appointed to lead a review of Britain’s competition laws. John Penrose, a former minister who described Ofcom and…

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Daily Mail: John Penrose to lead competition review in light of pandemic, Brexit

Britain’s finance ministry said a review of the country’s competition rules would consider ways they could be improved as the economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and starts life outside the ambit of the European Union. A member of parliament, John Penrose, who previously worked for bank JP Morgan and…

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