Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party, its leader Nigel Farage has said. A digital tracker on Reform's website shows its membership numbers have overtaken the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservatives earlier this year.

A digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservative Party during its leadership election earlier this year.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shouted "We have done it" as the party supassed the Conservative membership this morning. The milestone marks a dramatic rise for Nigel Farage's party, which had just 40,

According to Nigel Farage's party's official figures, the upstart political outfit - which is undergoing a rapid professionalisation process - now counts more than 131,680 members