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Nigel Farage It is claimed that reform uk After an internal leak revealed that Labor had lost 100,000 members, it is now Britain’s largest political party.
according to many timesLabour’s paid membership has fallen by 250,000, meaning the party has lost one person every seven minutes since winning the election 18 months ago.
With Reform officially at 268,631 paid-up members, it suggests Mr Farage’s party is the largest in Britain, a further blow. sir keir starmer,
Mr Farage said: “As we have suspected for some time, Reform is now the largest political party in British politics – a huge milestone for us. The era of two-party politics is dead.”
It comes as Britain’s leading polling guru sir john curtis Suggested that although support for Reform has plateaued after significant surges during the year, it represents the greatest attack on the two-party system since the Second World War.
sir john told Independent: “In terms of length of time before elections, the Reform infiltration is now longer than the moderate SDP coalition at the end of 1981–82, the last significant one.”
But he added: “I think my view for a long time has been that barring exceptional circumstances for a correction, 30 per cent or just a little bit above, appears to be stable, because they are very, very chasing a niche market.
“They are running around 50 per cent among those who voted for Brexit, but around 40 per cent of the population is not in favor of Brexit these days.
“You’ll never get that entire market. And they’ve basically been barely moving since the beginning of May. It’s very, very stable.”
He said that while reform support is “heavily dependent on Farage”, efforts to “mudden him” are affecting the reform in the polls.
In particular he warned that racist comments Mr Farage had made as a schoolboy had little impact on Reform votes, even if it did on those on the left who already dislike him.
However, the reform has seen cracks over the issue of racism.
A problem for Mr Farage is that the man who is expected to be the leader of Reform in Scotland distanced himself from his comments on English speaking in Glasgow.
On a recent visit to Scotland’s largest city, Mr Farage described the fact that 29 per cent of children speak English as a second language as “Glasgow’s cultural loss”.
Scottish SNP First Minister John Swinney described the comments as “racist”.
And speaking on BBC Question Time, Lord Offord, who recently left Reform to join the Tories and is widely expected to become leader of the party in Scotland, said: “He would not use that type of language.”
A Labor Party spokesperson said: “Our membership figures are published in our annual report. We do not comment on them throughout the year.”