Reform UK has quietly removed its flagship draft crypto bill – announced just over a year ago at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas – from the party website. The move, which happened at the end of May, came after it was reported that its leader, Nigel Farage, was being investigated by the parliamentary commissioner for standards over whether he should have declared a £5m gift from cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne, made in early 2024. 

In addition to Reform’s cryptoassets and digital finance bill, which promised to make the UK a “crypto powerhouse”, Farage has been pressing the Bank of…