<p><a href="https://twitter.com/rishisunak" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Rishi Sunak</a>, the former chancellor has been successful in obtaining an initial lead while endeavouring to become the leader of the UK Conservative Party and the prime minister. The competition, which takes place during a lengthened time of political turmoil across the country, is expected to be accomplished as shortly as Monday.</p><h2 id="header-0">Rishi Sunak Successfully Gets Early Lead While Participating in the Race for the UK Leadership</h2><p>In advance, Sunak has effectively gained support from a minimum of one hundred Tory MPs. This indicates that his name will be taken into consideration in the party members’ ballot in the coming week if agrees to be a part. Liz Truss, the departing Prime Minister, was given the post of leading the country on 5th September. The resignation thereof has been witnessed this week after the criticism made on the economic strategy of Kwasi Kwarteng (the Chancellor), taking into account the tax elimination for prominent earners.</p><p>Apart from that, Sunak also participated in the previous leadership election, however, could not make it to the final round as he was standing at 43% votes while Truss was given 57% votes. At present, the rest of the candidates who are a part of the race are Penny Mordaunt (the House of Commons leader) and Boris Johnson (the ousted PM). Just 3 participants of the parliament can move to the upcoming round because there are a cumulative number of up to three hundred and fifty-seven MPs.</p><h2 id="header-1">Sunak Proves to Be a Crypto Curios Person with His Recent Endeavors</h2><p>Rishi Sunak turned out to be an overtly <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/tag/crypto/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto</a>-curious personality when he worked as Exchequer’s chancellor from February 2020 to July 2022. This year, in April, he made a strategy to turn the United Kingdom into a crypto-friendly hub for <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/glossary/blockchain-3-0/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blockchain technology</a>. He stated that a <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/glossary/non-fungible-token/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">non-fungible token (NFT)</a> would be launched by Royal Mint this summer. In addition to this, he took some measures to regulate the stablecoins, paving the way for their usage across the jurisdiction of the country in the form of a recognized payment method.</p><p>The respective development has occurred amid an extended passage of chaos engulfing the regulation of crypto assets in the United Kingdom because the companies pursued judgments from the country’s financial regulatory agency over the anti-money laundering (AML) licensing. The procedure, organized on the behalf of the <a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)</a>, compelled several firms to consider the status thereof within the market of the UK. These platforms take into account Wirex (a wallet provider), Blockchain.com, and a crypto market-making venue called B2C2, which have decided to pursue licenses somewhere else.</p><p>The respective policies came after meetings with noticeable venture capital companies and crypto executives. The meetings log of the Treasury minister, which was published on the website of the UK government, indicates that Sunak and Douglas Leone (the managing partner of Sequoia) met to ponder over the Venture Capital space of the country earlier in 2022. Former reports additionally pointed out that Sunak, at 2021’s denouement, visited California to meet with Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia’s representatives.</p>

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