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Controlling Crypto in UK Politics: Is a Ban What's Really Needed?

· 34 min · S8 E12

Episode Controlling Crypto in UK Politics: Is a Ban What's Really Needed?

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As the UK brings forward new electoral legislation, what should the government do about crypto donations, and does it really understand the risks?

Discussion about cryptocurrencies is often polarised. Nowhere is this more so the case than in the ongoing discussion about the inclusion – or not – of cryptocurrency for donations to political parties in the UK.

In this latest episode of the STR podcast, host Tom Keatinge is joined by Eliza Lockhart, a Research Fellow in our CFS team leading our work on Cryptocurrencies in UK Politics which examines the risk of opaque, foreign or malign influence entering UK politics via cryptocurrency donations; and James Gillespie, a CFS Associate Fellow, formerly of HM Treasury, to reflect on where the real threats from crypto to electoral integrity lie, and what to do about them.

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