Pro-crypto UK mayor emerges as potential next prime minister

With the possibility of resignation growing for UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is emerging as a potential successor. Burnham is known as a prominent pro-cryptocurrency figure within the party. The most likely scenario is that Starmer will remain in office until the party conference at the end of September before handing over the premiership to a new leader. Burnham is one of the few senior Labour politicians to have publicly supported digital assets, having once declared at a Web3 event his ambition to make Manchester the home of the Web3 revolution, just as it was for the Industrial Revolution.