New CMA chair will have to assess curbs on his former employer Amazon

Doug Gurr will lead board as watchdog rules on Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of cloud computing market

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The new chair of the UK’s competition regulator has promised to make its investigations into mergers and takeovers “simple and rapid”, after government pressure for regulators to do more to support its economic growth agenda.

Doug Gurr, the former Amazon UK boss who was announced as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) earlier this month, said that a regulatory environment that encouraged the “greatest possible level of business investment” would be the agency’s new “north star”.

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