{"id":18993,"date":"2025-05-31T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/starmer-says-farage-would-spook-the-city-and-give-us-truss-2-he-could-be-right\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:37:14","slug":"starmer-says-farage-would-spook-the-city-and-give-us-truss-2-he-could-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/starmer-says-farage-would-spook-the-city-and-give-us-truss-2-he-could-be-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer says Farage would spook the City and give us Truss 2 \u2013 he could be right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not the cryptocurrencies message that is raising eyebrows, it is Reform\u2019s broader tax and spending policies<\/p>\n<p>The message Zia Yusuf wanted to send was clear. With a backdrop of the City of London behind him, from the 34th floor of the Shard, the Reform UK chair laid out an economic policy designed to show his party meant business.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing over a full English breakfast for some of the nation\u2019s journalists on Friday morning, Yusuf reiterated an announcement the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, had made overnight from another hotel 5,000 miles away in Las Vegas: the party would now accept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/may\/29\/reform-uk-to-accept-donations-via-bitcoin-nigel-farage-says\">donations in bitcoin<\/a>, and if elected to power would make tax and regulatory changes to bolster Britain\u2019s adoption of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/31\/starmer-says-farage-would-spook-the-city-truss-2-he-could-be-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9857fc1b924094f9fccf1ba21d02de0472c74062\/121_1142_2318_1856\/master\/2318.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=adfd41df36a81b70794a0bf1a570fed5\" title=\"Starmer says Farage would spook the City and give us Truss 2 \u2013 he could be right\" \/>It is not the cryptocurrencies message that is raising eyebrows, it is Reform\u2019s broader tax and spending policies<br \/>\nThe message Zia Yusuf wanted to send was clear. With a backdrop of the City of London behind him, from the 34th floor of the Shard, the Reform UK chair laid out an economic policy designed to show his party meant business.<br \/>\nIn a briefing over a full English breakfast for some of the nation\u2019s journalists on Friday morning, Yusuf reiterated an announcement the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, had made overnight from another hotel 5,000 miles away in Las Vegas: the party would now accept donations in bitcoin, and if elected to power would make tax and regulatory changes to bolster Britain\u2019s adoption of cryptocurrency. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not the cryptocurrencies message that is raising eyebrows, it is Reform\u2019s broader tax and spending policies The message Zia Yusuf wanted to send was clear. With a backdrop of the City of London behind him, from the 34th floor of the Shard, the Reform UK chair laid out an economic policy designed to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/starmer-says-farage-would-spook-the-city-and-give-us-truss-2-he-could-be-right\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starmer says Farage would spook the City and give us Truss 2 \u2013 he could be right<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}