The chair of the UK's competition watchdog is out as the British government goes for growth.

Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

I'm Luke Wilson in for Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

The UK finance minister, Rachel Reeves, has talked a lot about boosting growth in recent months.

And with bond markets jittery

and lackluster economic data, the Chancellor is in Davos looking to secure investment. Now, there's

change at the top of the British antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority,

amid concerns it's not focusing enough on growth. Its chair, Marcus Boker-ink,

is out and will be replaced by Doug Ger, the former UK boss of Amazon. Here's the BBC's Simon Jack.

Last week, the Chancellor hauled in the heads of key regulators to read them the Riot Act. Stop

getting in the way of growth was the message. It's understood that the Chancellor was

underwhelmed by the CMA's ideas and with the Chancellor and Business Secretary meeting the

global business elite in Davos, the government wanted to send a signal that it was serious about growth,

and Mr Bukering's ousting was evidence of that new approach. The CMA's primary responsibility

is to ensure consumers are well served by effective and fair competition.

The government has warned it, however, that it must not present impediments to growth.

It recently held up a merger between Vodafone and three that was eventually approved.

Simon Jack there. So is it possible to balance growth with protecting consumers?

Lord Tyree was chair of the CMA until 2020.

Yeah, people see this as a conflict between these two.

It's incorrect.

If you get high levels of competition into an economy,

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