Reform UK membership is set to surpass the Conservatives within a month after they unveiled an online tracker of their sign-ups.
The party is now almost 8,000 members away from their momentous milestone.
This morning, the figure stands at almost 124,000, compared to the Tories’ latest published membership figure of 131,860.
After Reform announced a cheaper fee to urge younger people to join, the party has received a surge in members.
This morning, the figure stands at almost 124,000, compared to the Tories’ latest published membership figure of 131,860
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Newly elected Kieran Mishchuk, 18, became a Reform councillor in a Swale borough by-election, winning over a third of the vote.
Nigel Farage, the party leader, said: “Reform has all the momentum in British politics, as our membership numbers show.
“We are growing at an unprecedented rate and will soon surpass the failed Tories, who are being abandoned after 14 years of deception and failure.”
The party’s chairman Zia Yusuf said: “History is being made as the century-long stranglehold the two old parties have had on Britain is finally broken.
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“Nigel Farage will be the next Prime Minister, and will return Britain to greatness.”
Tech mogul and billionaire Elon Musk is just one of a number of potential donors to the British populist party, who met with Nigel Farage when he flew over to the US last week.
Reform treasurer Nick Candy said that “a number of billionaires” were interested in making donations.
He promised “political disruption like we have never seen before”.
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Candy claimed that the party would raise more funds than “any other political party” for grassroots campaigning, data and polling, while speaking with The Financial Times.
He said: “The Reform party is the disrupter – this is the seed round, the series A. This will be political disruption like we have never seen before.”
Meanwhile, the Labour Party’s membership is dwindling – dropping to its lowest ever level in ten years, despite Keir Starmer’s landslide victory earlier this year.
Last year, the party lost 37,000 members, bringing its membership to 370,450 by the end of the year, according to data from Labour’s accounts.
While the party was led by Jeremy Corbyn, the party had over half a million members in 2019.
