Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has given a New Year message from Blenheim Palace. Mr Nigel Farage, who became an MP for Clacton, Essex, on his eighth election attempt last year, recorded an almost six minute-long message at the birthplace of Winston Churchill,

According to Reform UK’s live membership tracker, there were almost 153,000 members at the time of writing. According to the Guardian, approximately 2.8 million people were registered with the Conservative Party and one million to the Labour Party in the 1950s.

Nigel Farage claimed the UK has been “appallingly led” for years as he took a swipe at the Conservatives and Labour party in his New Year address. In a video message recorded at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill,

A Boxing Day bust-up is probably not going to be enough for Reform UK to supplant the Tories as the main political party on the centre-right. Badenoch is facing calls to apologise after Farage seemingly disproved her claims of Reform UK “fraudulently” ramping up its membership ticker.

Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK, claimed this morning that it had surpassed 131,680 members. According to “Britain’s fastest growing political party”, that means it has more members than the Conservatives.