Nigel Farage has hit back at Keir Starmer after he slammed him in a conference today, claiming that the Prime Minister is "scared of me."
Speaking on stage in Las Vegas, Farage said: "Keir Starmer, our socialist Prime Minister is terrified. Do you know he mentioned me 16 times today in a speech. I'm living rent free inside his head."
The comments came as the Reform UK leader took to the stage in Las Vegas and presented a draft cryptocurrency bill, calling for a lower tax rate on crypto profits and new legal protections for digital payments.
The proposal included reducing capital gains tax on crypto assets to 10 per cent from 24 per cent, introducing a two-year regulatory sandbox for financial services, and banning service discrimination based on payment method.
Nigel Farage spoke at the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas
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Speaking at the Bitcoin conference, Farage explained: "If taxes are reasonable, people will pay them.
"We're going to have a Bitcoin digital reserve in the Bank of England and we are going to pass legislation that says that no bank can close your account because you're trading in legal crypto or digital products.
"No more debanking, ladies and gentlemen. So, yeah, we are taking it very, very seriously. And it's really interesting.
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"I mean, seven million people in Britain have got crypto assets. One in four people under 30 have got crypto assets.
"And yet our outdated Labour and Conservative governments have done nothing in this space at all.
"I want to do when we win the next election is bring us into the 21st century.
"We are going to launch in Britain a crypto revolution. We're going to make London one of the major trading centres of the world. We're deadly serious."
The Reform UK leader added: "In the early 90s, I saw the emergence of the European Union.
"I saw the emergence of these globalist structures that were designed to take away our democracy, to remove our ability to elect people who really influenced our law and hand them up to a sort of global bureaucracy. I fought against it.
"It took me quarter of a century to get Brexit, but we did it. We voted out. And you know something, if we were still in the European Union, this would not even be possible.
"So I believe in national sovereignty, but I also worry that government right across the Western world has got too big. It interferes and tries to control virtually every aspect of our lives.
"We've touched on the banking industry already, who in many cases have behaved appallingly. So I believe in individual sovereignty as well. And Bitcoin is the ultimate freedom from big government."
The proposal marks Reform’s first announced piece of drafted legislation and comes amid a rise in the party’s national polling.
Earlier today, Nigel Farage faced a series of attacks from Keir Starmer where he warned that Reform's policies would "crash the economy" and lead to increased mortgage costs.
Farage faced a series of attacks from Keir Starmer where he warned that Reform's policies would 'crash the economy'
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He sought to contrast himself personally with Farage, saying he knew "what it's like when your family can't pay the bills" and that Labour would "never put working people through a crisis like Liz Truss ever again".
Starmer asked voters: "Can you trust Nigel Farage with your future, your jobs and your mortgage?"
The attacks came after Farage set out policy pledges on Tuesday, including more generous tax breaks for married couples and restoring winter fuel payments for all pensioners.
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