Reform UK has more than 200,000 members, leader Nigel Farage announced, as he set out the party’s next goal to overtake the membership of the Labour Party.
Reform UK has rejected the possibility of doing a pact with the Conservative Party or former prime minister Boris Johnson in response to reports of potential talks to form a “mega party”.
The Labour List website reported this week that the Labour Party’s paid-up members currently number around 309,000, which it said was down from around 348,500 in July last year.
The Conservative Party revealed in November that 131,680 Conservative members were eligible to vote during the party’s leadership election to replace Rishi Sunak in the autumn.
“There are absolutely no circumstances in which Reform would ever do a pact with Boris Johnson or the Conservative Party,” chairman Zia Yusuf said at the Wiltshire conference, reading out a statement also posted online.
