Watch the moment Nigel Farage's speech is halted as he's informed Reform has now reached 170,000 members.
The Reform leader is handed a mobile phone displaying a live ticker of Reform members which reaches the hefty total while he's speaking in Chelmsford, where the party is holding its conference.
The right-wing party racking up such a total is a sure sign it is “on the march”, Nigel told the crowd.
“The ticker says 170,000”, he proudly announced to the delighted audience.
Nigel Farage shows off the live Reform membership ticker to the crowd
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“Kemi, are you watching on the livestream? It’s happening folks. This party is on the march.”
Nigel went on to claim his party is attracting the hearts and minds of younger Britons, rallying against the notion Reform is more popular among older swathes of the electorate.
He said: “There is a younger generation coming through who are turning their backs on what left-wing teachers are telling them.
“They are filled with new ambition and new hope and they too are joining our party in their thousands every week.
Nigel Farage held the membership ticker aloft
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“That is really excitNigel also joked that his party “deliberately fiddled” with the Reform membership figures in order for the milestone to be struck in time for his speech in a dig at Kemi Badenoch.
The two are embroiled in a row over the matter after Badenoch accused him of “fakery” when he said his party had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members last month.
Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”.
Nigel has demanded an apology from Badenoch after saying he would “gladly invite” a firm to audit the party’s membership figures as long as the Tories did the same thing.
Kemi BadenochCONSERVATIVE PARTYReform UK chairman Zia Yusuf today announced that more than 46,000 people joined the party in the last two weeks of December.
The surge in membership was revealed during a Reform UK conference in Chelmsford, Essex, where Yusuf addressed party members.
He claimed the party had become "the talk not just of the UK but of the western world" during this period of rapid growth.
Yusuf said Reform’s membership numbers had “exploded” since Badenoch’s “ill-advised outburst” and expressed gratitude for the impact.
