I’m honoured to be this month’s ‘Parliamentary Tech Champion’, 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…
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This article was published in The Daily Express Britain’s economy could be left behind by more competitive international rivals unless Rishi Sunak’s government moves fast than its predecessors, a Conservative MP has said. John Penrose, MP for Weston-Super-Mare who is Competition Tsar said reforms to the government’s previously planned levelling…
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The post-privatisation utility model is “wobblier” than it has been at any time since energy and water companies were taken out of public ownership three decades ago, Conservative MP John Penrose has warned. In his opening keynote address at the Utility Week Forum in London on Tuesday (8 November), Penrose said that…
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This article was originally written Geraldine Scott, Political Reporter, and published in The Times. The government is resisting calls to release a review almost five years old into the security risks posed by granting “golden visas” to Russians. The tier 1 visa route, whereby wealthy individuals could buy the right…
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