Criticism that the UK's merger regime has got tougher because of an uptick in blocked and abandoned mergers at phase II doesn't tell the whole story, the Competition and Markets Authority's senior director for mergers has said. When the numbers are looked at in context, Colin Raftery said, it is evident that
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