Former CMA president, Marcus Bokkerink

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Marcus Bukerink, the head of the Power of Competition and Markets in the United Kingdom, defended his record on the organizer, saying that he was “greatly different” from when he joined and influenced questions about the changes that the government could plan.

in LinkedIn published on ThursdayBokkerink, who was forced to resign by the government last month because of fears that the agency was not doing enough to enhance growth, said he was “a defender of an approach to advance economic growth that gives priority to consumers and companies all over the United Kingdom.”

The departure of Bokkerink from CMA is part of a wider government batch to force the organizers to grow more seriously as the UK seeks to enhance trade in the country. CMA was at the intersection due to complaints from business, especially large technology groups, that they entered excessively.

In his post, Bokkerink said: “The CMA plan for consultation at the beginning of the year determines the measures that CMA plans to take. To further increase this strategy of providing a set of positive results for people, companies and economics.

“The government has indicated that it is seeking a different approach to what is shown in this plan. Although it was not upright after this different approach will be, there is of course a always alternative.”

The government is scheduled to publish its “strategic direction” to CMA in the coming weeks, which determines its priorities in the supervisory body. The change in the upper part of the organization shortly after the publication of its annual project, which determines its focus over the next three years, raised questions about how the organizer changes mainly or not.

Bokkerink was replaced by former Amazon head Doug Gore, who said he wanted to move CMA faster and make both investigations into the markets and the market “simple and fast as possible.”

The change in CMA comes amid reforms in other control as the government pushes a less arduous organizational environment. On Thursday, the head of the UK’s Financial Grievances Service resigned on Thursday in the middle of a major review of the consumer compensation system.

Abe Thomas was under pressure to follow a less convenient approach to the consumer, according to one person familiar with the issue, who said that there is frustration between the Board of Grievances in its initial reluctance to start imposing fees on the requests management companies to bring cases.