The nation is – apparently – in shock. After giving endless speeches about how much he loves cryptocurrencies, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed that he himself has invested in a crypto firm called Stack.

Despite being accused of ‘grift’, Farage is far from the first politician to hold stocks and shares that risk overlapping with his professional duties. Indeed, it is hardly an established convention that politicians must divest all their assets upon entering Parliament. There are, in fact, plenty of examples to the contrary.

The Sunak family, comfortably the wealthiest-ever occupants of Downing Street, have a net worth of north of half a billion pounds thanks to their shares in a listed tech firm set up…