"Concerns around Gurr’s appointment are not about whether he will act for personal benefit.. Rather, experts are worried about how someone who spent a significant part of his career helping Amazon become a dominant player in retail and technology thinks the CMA should regulate dominant mega-corporations such as Amazon.
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