Reform UK claims more members than the Conservatives

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has said its membership has surpassed the Conservatives for the first time, in a sign of the growing number of people with just five MPs in parliament.

Change it had more than 132,000 members on Thursday morning, according to the party’s online data, up from 131,860 Tory members at the time Kemi Badenoch was appointed opposition leader last month.

Farage He has been trying to win the general election to defeat the Tories suffered by Labor in July, and said at a press conference this month that the Tory “symbol is broken”.

“This is a huge, historic moment,” Farage said on Thursday. “The youngest party in British politics has defeated the oldest party in the world. Reform UK is now the real opposition. “

Reform won five MPs in the election and received a boost in early December when Farage met Elon Musk in the US. Farage said the tech billionaire was considering contributions to Reform.

Farage has sought to strengthen the Reform campaign by expanding his membership to all areas of the UK where he has support, including Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Wales.

The party has been talking about its electoral plans to be used by the Liberal Democrats, who are often looking for small seats in regional and national elections, to respect their platform of messages and policies to the voters in those regions.

Reform is trying to find thousands of people who are ready to collect and collect party data, and will be councilors in next year’s mid-term elections.

The party hopes to win hundreds of seats in May’s general elections, as well as one mayor.