Reform UK has hit a huge milestone as the populist party’s tally has totalled up to 200,000 today.
Party leader Nigel Farage has taken to Twitter to hail Reform’s success as “an incredible achievement for our party”.
Reform’s membership numbers has surpassed those of the Conservatives last December, driving a public spat between the populist leader and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch on Boxing Day.
The North West Essex MP previously accused Farage of “fakery” over his booming membership numbers after Reform launched an online ticker tracking the party’s membership, while she insisted that the counter was “coded up to tick automatically”.
Reform’s membership numbers has surpassed those of the Conservatives last December
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Soon after, Farage responded to the Tory leader online, confirming that the “membership numbers are correct and have now been verified by the media”.
The party had received verification from various media outlets including Sky News, the Telegraph and the Financial Times – all of whom confirmed that the Reform’s membership ticker was displaying accurate information.
Farage said: “Kemi Badenoch says she wants to rebuild trust in politics. She should start by apologising to me.”
More recently, Reform has targeted Labour’s move to cancel local elections across nine English authorities in May later this year.
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The party has claimed that the Government’s top brass are fearful of the populist party’s potential.
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