BREAKDOWN: After Prime Minister Boris Johnson Resigns, Are the UK’s Crypto Hub Dreams Dead?
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🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The government’s big shift in tone on crypto might be to no avail.
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After years of what many would consider hostility to the industry, the British government did a major about-face in April when Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the country’s intention to make the U.K. a global crypto hub. But as Sunak resigned as part of a mass exit leading to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation this week, that ideal seems unlikely.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, July 9th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 0:29.2 | A quick note, before we dive in, there are two ways to listen to the Breakdown Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | You can hear it on the Coin Desk Podcast Network, which comes out every day in the afternoon, |
| 0:38.0 | and features the breakdown alongside other great Coin Desk shows, |
| 0:41.1 | or if you just want to hear the breakdown-only feed, that comes out a little later in the evening. |
| 0:45.8 | Wherever you're listening, if you would be so kind as to leave a rating or a review, |
| 0:49.9 | it makes a huge difference, and I really appreciate it. |
| 0:52.7 | Lastly, a disclosure, as always. |
| 0:54.7 | In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:58.7 | Now, today we are doing something a little bit different. |
| 1:01.8 | We are talking about the volatility and upheaval in UK politics, but specifically, of course, |
| 1:07.6 | what it might mean for the crypto community in that country. |
| 1:11.9 | This is the type of show that I love doing during the weekly recap because while it's a little bit outside of what we |
| 1:16.2 | might normally cover, there is some interesting overlap and it's certainly big picture power shift |
| 1:20.4 | time in the UK right now. I'm not going to go deep on the situation because obviously this isn't a |
| 1:25.7 | politics podcast. It's not particularly |
| 1:27.6 | a UK podcast, but if you haven't seen, the prime minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, resigned on |
| 1:33.8 | Thursday morning. This is coming after months of building criticism and scandal around everything |
| 1:39.2 | from economic policy, COVID policy, national health systems, ministerial conduct, and more. |
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