Does the government really know what it wants from the CMA? | Nils Pratley

Some directives such as ‘be more agile’ are meaningless, and what happens when the ‘pro-growth’ agenda collides with the ‘pro-competition’ one?The government seemed to give a strong steer that it wanted the Competition and Markets Authority to do things differently when it ousted its chair, Marcus Bokkerink, last month. But what, precisely, does Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, wish to see?His headline demand that the CMA should be “more agile&