The former president of the CMA, Marcus Bokkerink, defends the record after the United Kingdom Government expels

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Marcus Bokkerink, the overthrown president of the United Kingdom competence and market authority, has defended his history in the regulator, saying that he was “significantly different” when he joined and asked questions about the changes that the government could be planning.

In LinkedIn publication published on ThursdayBokkerink, who was forced to resign by the government last month about the concerns that the agency was not doing enough to promote growth, said it was “a defender of an approach to boost economic growth that prioritizes the benefits for consumers and companies throughout the United Kingdom. “

CMA’s Bokkerink departure is part of a broader government impulse to force regulators to take growth more seriously, since the United Kingdom seeks to boost business investment in the country. The CMA has been in the sights for business complaints, particularly the large technological groups, that it is too interventionist.

In its publication, Bokkerink said: “The draft of the plan that the CMA published to consult at the beginning of the year establishes the actions that CMA planned to take. . . To further boost this strategy to deliver a prioritized set of positive results for people, companies and the economy.

“The Government has indicated that it seeks a different approach to what is established in that plan. . . While this different approach will not yet be explicit, of course, there is always an alternative. “

The Government is ready to publish its “strategic address” for the CMA in the coming weeks, establishing its priorities for the Guardian dog. The change in the upper part of the organization as soon as it has published its annual plan draft, which establishes its approach during the next three years, has asked questions about how fundamentally or not the regulator will change its approach.

Bokkerink was replaced by the former Amazon Chief of the United Kingdom, Doug Gurr, who said he wants the CMA to move faster and make fusion and market research as “simple and fast as possible.”

The change in the CMA is produced in the midst of the review of other guards while the government presses by a less onerous regulatory environment. The head of the service of the Financial People of the United Kingdom unexpectedly resigned on Thursday in the middle of an important review of the consumer repair system.

Abby Thomas was under pressure to adopt a less friendly approach to the consumer, according to a person familiar with the matter, who said there was frustration among the Board of the Ombudsman in his initial reluctance to begin charging the claims management companies for bringing cases.