Nigel Farage said Reform UK’s membership has now surpassed 200,000 and that the party’s next goal is to overtake the membership of the Labour Party. The Reform UK leader and Clacton MP called his party’s growth “truly extraordinary” at a Reform UK regional conference event in Wiltshire. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I've got a very important message to show you.
00:04Would you like a quick flash?
00:08We have reached 200,000 members!
00:13How about that?
00:15The idea behind this was that as we got past 100,000, we realised that the Conservative
00:22Party had sent out 131,680 ballot papers in their last leadership election.
00:32So we thought, we'll put that up, and who knows, maybe we'll go past it.
00:36And on Boxing Day morning, we went past that number, only to have the leader of His Majesty's
00:47Loyal Opposition accuse us of fraud, saying we were making it up.
00:51Well, we weren't, because we got people to come in and check and look at the back end,
00:55and it's all absolutely legit.
00:57And by the way, in the modern world, to have got here this quickly, isn't it truly extraordinary?
01:05Doesn't it show you something is happening in this country?
01:09People want real political leadership, they want real change.
01:13That's what that tells you.
01:15That's what that tells you.
01:18But as soon as I come off stage, that message will change, and it will say that the Labour
01:26Party have 309,000 members, and when we overtake them, we will be the biggest political party
01:34in this country.
01:36That's our goal, that's our aim, that's our target.