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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Phillip Inman

Competition watchdog to speed up decisions after UK government pressure

The CMA’s chief executive, Sarah Cardell
The CMA’s chief executive, Sarah Cardell, said the regulator was setting out ‘a programme of rapid, meaningful changes to our mergers process’. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The UK’s competition regulator has pledged to “drive growth and investment” and speed up its decisions after pressure from the government to be more pragmatic and less risk averse in its investigations.

Setting out how she planned to overhaul the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator’s chief executive, Sarah Cardell, said a change of strategic direction was needed after the “operating environment” had changed.

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