Early results from yesterday’s U.K. local elections show a swing away from the governing Conservative Party, which has staked out a pro-crypto stance, toward the Labour Party that, while it’s expressed support for tokenization, has yet to say where it stands on cryptocurrencies in general.
About a third of the country’s local councils went to the polls on Thursday, with more than 2,600 seats up for grabs. With results in from 40 of the 107 councils, Labour had won 360 council positions, a gain of 62, while the Conservatives lost 147 for a total of 129, falling behind the Liberal Democrats, BBC veri shows. Many of the other results, including the London mayoral election, may not be known until tomorrow or even Sunday.
The Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, have said that they want the country to be a crypto hub and have ushered in legislation enabling crypto to be treated like a regulated financial activity while shutting down calls for it to be treated like gambling. Labour, meanwhile, has said it will support the Bank of England’s