Inside the UK’s crypto lobbying blitz: ‘I’ve stopped doing meetings with MPs… we have so many of them’
As Britain draws up its crypto laws, firms are getting a foothold in Westminster — critics warn MPs should steer clear
Can digital asset lobbyists influence the right people as the UK rewrites its rules?
Getty Images/iStockphotoCrypto executives used to spend their free time bashing each another on Twitter. Now you’re more likely to find them wining and dining politicians.
“I’ve stopped doing the meetings with MPs because we have so many of them,” says Graham Rodford, chief executive of Archax, a UK-based cryptocurrency firm backed by Abrdn. “Every week we have two or three MP meetings now.”
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