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Kate Hawkesby: I'm not sure a Grocery Commissioner is actually going to bring change
Didn’t you always know that this Government, in clamping down on something, would involve a working group, a watchdog, a commissioner or a report?
Turns out they’ve gone with a mix of all four. ‘Grocery Commissioner’ is the official title of the watchdog being set up. Supermarkets must be quaking in their boots. Not.
It will take a while to establish – first they need to set up legislation round it, then there’ll be a mandatory code of conduct drawn up, so by the time the legislation goes through the House and the a commissioner actually gets appointed it’ll be mid 2023.
That’s if they work…
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