简而言之 据《卫报》报道，工党议员计划在下周发起反抗，以加强政府的政治资助法案，包括将对加密货币捐赠的临时禁令改为永久性禁令。 加密货币亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈博恩 (Christopher Harborne) 和本·德洛 (Ben Delo) 向奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 的英国改革组织 (Reform UK) 捐赠了数百万英镑，而这两家公司都不是以加密货币的形式进行的。 英国于 3 月份冻结了加密货币政治捐款；修正案将把这一点落实到法律中，并削减竞选支出限制。 据《卫报》报道，工党议员正准备迫使英国政府永久禁止以加密货币进行的政治捐款。 该报称，议会跨党派反腐败小组的议员正在为《人民代表法案》的四项修正案争取支持。其中一项将以永久禁令取代政府目前对加密货币捐赠的暂停，《卫报》称，随着改革英国及其领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇的财务争端不断加深，这一提议正在赢得工党议员的广泛支持。
加密货币禁令修正案背后的商业特别委员会工党主席利亚姆·伯恩 (Liam Byrne) 表示，改革英国的政治家们似乎愿意“不遗余力”避免对其财务进行审查，并敦促同事支持这些变革，以此作为英国民主的保障。据该报报道，截至周四中午，他的修正案已有至少 20 个签名。 四项修改 加密货币禁令是叛乱分子想要的几项措施之一。前内阁大臣安妮莉丝·多兹 (Anneliese Dodds) 提出一项修正案，将竞选支出限额削减近三分之一，从 3400 万英镑降至 2440 万英镑，称英国面临“政治竞选资金的军备竞赛”。 即将上任的首相的盟友杨元希望限制政党在成立之初所能持有的资金数额，此前有消息称，鲁珀特·洛(Rupert Lowe)的“复兴英国”(Restore Britain)在银行中存有250万英镑，但没有公布资金来源。第四个建议来自马克·苏厄德（Mark Sewards），他将检查捐款是否有可能成为外国破坏英国民主企图的一部分。 加密货币成为十字准线
在政府委托的 Rycroft Review 警告称，数字资产转移的匿名性可能会被用来将外国资金引入英国政治之后，英国于 3 月份暂停了加密货币政治捐赠。 撰写该评论的前高级公务员菲利普·莱克罗夫特 (Philip Rycroft) 呼吁采取暂时的“插曲”而不是永久禁令，以便给监管机构时间赶上。反叛修正案将永远关闭这扇门。 几个月来，活动人士一直要求全面禁止，他们认为选举委员会缺乏追踪加密货币的工具，并指出爱尔兰和巴西已经实施了彻底禁令。英国改革党于 2025 年 6 月成为第一个接受加密货币捐赠的英国主要政党。 法拉奇资金行 推动该法案的强化之际，英国改革背后的资金压力越来越大。该党已从外籍加密货币亿万富翁 Christopher Harborne 和 Ben Delo 那里收到了总计数百万英镑的捐款，但这些捐款都不是以加密货币的形式进行的。
法拉奇因接受哈博恩的 500 万英镑礼物而单独面临议会标准专员的调查，这笔礼物是在他宣布决定于 2024 年 6 月竞选议员之前不久提供的。据《卫报》报道，法拉奇声称他没有义务申报并有权按照自己的意愿支出这笔礼物，这引发了银行家的可疑活动报告，银行家对自己能够追踪资金的最终来源感到不满意。 法拉奇否认有任何不当行为，并在克拉克顿席位引发补选，以辩称选民站在他一边，改革党的主要竞争对手都不会参与这场竞争。部长们分别承诺在 7 月 14 日返回下议院时加强选举法案，政府修正案包括外籍人士回到英国第一年的捐款上限为 10 万英镑。
并非每项提案都得到同等支持：工党议员斯特拉·克里西提出的所有个人捐款上限为 10 万英镑，据了解，其支持率低于伯恩、多兹、杨和苏厄兹修正案。住房部发言人表示，在议会通过该法案时，政府将“继续寻找加强该法案的方法”。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
In brief
Labour MPs plan to rebel next week to toughen the government's political funding bill, including turning a temporary ban on crypto donations into a permanent one, the Guardian reported.
The push comes after multimillion-pound donations to Nigel Farage's Reform UK from crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo, neither of which were made in the form of crypto.
The UK froze crypto political donations in March; the amendments would harden that into law and slash campaign spending limits.
Labour MPs are preparing to force the UK government to permanently ban political donations made in cryptocurrency, the Guardian has reported.
MPs on Parliament's all-party anti-corruption group are canvassing support for four amendments to the Representation of the People Bill, the paper said. One would replace the government's current moratorium on crypto donations with a permanent ban, a proposal the Guardian said is winning broad backing among Labour MPs amid a deepening row over the finances of Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage.
Liam Byrne, the Labour chair of the business select committee behind the crypto ban amendment, said Reform UK politicians appeared willing to go to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid scrutiny of their finances, and urged colleagues to back the changes as a safeguard for UK democracy. His amendment had at least 20 signatures by midday Thursday, according to the paper.
Four amendments
The crypto ban is one of several measures the rebels want. Former cabinet minister Anneliese Dodds has tabled an amendment cutting campaign spending limits by nearly a third, from £34 million to £24.4 million, arguing the UK faces "an arms race in funding political campaigns."
Yuan Yang, an ally of the incoming prime minister, wants limits on how much money a party can hold when it is first set up, after it emerged that Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain launched with £2.5 million in the bank without declaring its source. A fourth, from Mark Sewards, would introduce checks on whether donations risk being part of a foreign attempt to undermine British democracy.
Crypto in the crosshairs
The UK imposed a moratorium on crypto political donations in March, after the government-commissioned Rycroft Review warned that the anonymity of digital-asset transfers could be used to channel foreign money into British politics.
Philip Rycroft, the former senior civil servant who authored the review, called for a temporary "interlude" rather than a permanent ban, to give regulation time to catch up. The rebel amendment would close that door for good.
Campaigners have pressed for a full ban for months, arguing the Electoral Commission lacks the tools to trace crypto and pointing to outright bans already in place in Ireland and Brazil. Reform UK became the first major British party to accept crypto donations in June 2025.
The Farage funding row
The push to harden the bill comes as pressure mounts over the money behind Reform UK. The party has received donations totalling millions of pounds from expat crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo—none of which were made in the form of cryptocurrency.
Farage is separately facing an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over his acceptance of a £5 million gift from Harborne, made shortly before he announced his decision to run as an MP in June 2024. The gift, which Farage claims he was under no obligation to declare and is entitled to spend as he wishes, triggered a suspicious activity report from bankers who were not satisfied they could trace the ultimate origin of the funds, the Guardian reported.
Farage has denied any wrongdoing and triggered a byelection in his Clacton seat to argue voters are on his side, a contest none of Reform's main rivals will fight. Ministers have separately promised to toughen the elections bill when it returns to the Commons on July 14, with government amendments including a £100,000 cap on donations from expats for their first year back in the UK.
Not every proposal has equal support: a £100,000 cap on all individual donations, floated by Labour's Stella Creasy, is understood to have less backing than the Byrne, Dodds, Yang and Sewards amendments. A spokesperson for the housing ministry said the government would "keep looking for ways to strengthen the bill" as it moves through Parliament.
