Farage pledges to ‘bring crypto in from cold’ and stop work on potential digital pound

Nigel Farage MP: interviewed at the ‘Digital Asset Summit 2025’ in London as his Reform UK party rides high in the opinion polls | Credit: Global Government Fintech screenshots of session video uploaded to Blockworks website

Nigel Farage, the leader of political party Reform UK – currently riding high in opinion polls – has told an event audience that he wants to “bring crypto in from the cold” and put an immediate halt to work on a potential UK central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Farage – a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020, a move he campaigned for – is one of the best-known figures in British politics….

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