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cryptocurrency are not currently illegal and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, a keen advocate of the crypto industry, has said in the past that his party would welcome them. But last month, [the UK government
UK received £7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires earlier this year, figures show, helping it cement its fundraising lead in recent months. Hong Kong-based businessman Ben Delo gave £4m to Nigel Farage
billionaires in the first three months of the year. Nigel Farage’s party took a £3m donation from the cryptocurrency and aviation investor, Christopher Harborne, who is a British-Thai dual citizen, and £4m from
cryptocurrency investor who lives in Thailand, last year donated £9m to Reform UK - the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living person. The separate £5m gift to Farage came in early
UK for five years. After Harborne donated £9m to Reform, Farage said he spoke to the businessman “maybe once a month, maybe once every six weeks”, but insisted: “I’ve not promised him a single
billionaire in 2018 after making his fortune by co-founding the BitMEX trading platform. He received a pardon from Donald Trump last year after being convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement
fund”](https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4414375/reform-uk-accept-crypto-donations-establish-bitcoin-reserve) and the forcing of HMRC to accept crypto as a payment for taxes. Cooper also highlighted the £9m donation Reform [received last year from Christopher Harborne](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-reform-uk-donation-brexit-party-christopher-harborne-crypto-uk-politics), an investor