The UK’s finance minister has criticized the pro-Bitcoin leader of Reform UK. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has appeared to slam Reform Party leader Nigel Farage’s use of Bitcoin. ” Farage, who is leading the increasingly popular Reform Party, has come under fire recently for receiving donations from crypto entrepreneurs.
Liz Truss was the UK’s shortest serving Prime Minister who was heavily criticised for her debt-fueled 2022 mini budget. “Nigel Farage — he wants you to think he’s a man of the people,” Healey said. ” His comments were criticized by the Bitcoin community on X, who asked what a “Bitcoin account” even was.
“Apparently ‘Bitcoin account’ is now a thing,” the Simply Bitcoin account wrote on X. ” Populist Farage has long been a pro-crypto politician. Since 2020, he has framed Bitcoin mainly as a question of personal freedom and opposition to state control of money.
Farage has also said that he was debanked by private British bank Coutts and that led him to develop more interest in digital assets. Just last year, he said at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference at Las Vegas that he’d slash crypto capital gains taxes and force the Bank of England to establish a Bitcoin reserve if elected as the next Prime Minister. Farage has come under fire this year for receiving millions of dollars in the form of crypto donations from tech entrepreneur and Tether investor Christopher Harborne, and Ben Delo, one of the founders of the now-closed BitMEX crypto exchange.
The Metropolitan Police have opened an investigation into reports that Reform broke rules against overseas donations. Reform denies wrongdoing and says it will cooperate.
