The CMA is a quango: > In the UK, the term quango covers different "arm's-length" government bodies, including [...] non-ministerial government departments ht

The CMA is a quango: > In the UK, the term quango covers different "arm's-length" government bodies, including [...] non-ministerial government departments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango > The Competition and Markets Authority [...] is a non-ministerial government department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_and_Markets_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_and_Markets_Author... But this specifics of what is and is not a quango don't matter. The original claim implied that the decision was made by a politician for political reasons and this isn't the case.