Reform is now the UK’s largest party – overtaking Labour which has lost 100,000 members since the general election.
Nigel Farage‘s party boasts 263,631 paid-up members, according to its own ‘live counter’ on its official website.
That puts it ahead of Keir Starmer‘s Labour, whose internal figures show paid-up membership has fallen below 250,000.
Mr Farage told the Times: ‘As we have suspected for some time, Reform is now the largest political party in British politics – a huge milestone for us. The age of two-party politics is dead.’
The Labour fall means that Sir Keir’s party has lost one member every seven minutes since coming to power in July last year.
When he became leader in 2020, Labour had more than half a million paying members and was the largest political party in Europe.
But numbers have been falling since Jeremy Corbyn’s departure, and it lost a tenth of its membership last year after the election landslide.
The party stopped sharing its membership figures at the end of 2024, when it had 333,235 members.
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage (pictured left) party boasts 263,631 paid-up members, according to its own ‘live counter’ on its official website
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party internal figures show paid-up membership has fallen below 250,000
Reform overtook the Conservatives’ membership count on Boxing Day last year, and the Tories’ numbers have continued to fall to about 123,000 in July.
The Green Party has increased its membership from 126,000 to 180,000 since October, declaring this week that ‘two-party politics is over’.
Figures published in August showed the Liberal Democrats had 83,174 members, a slight fall on the year before.
Mr Corbyn’s new Your Party has attracted some 50,000 members, a small proportion of the 800,000 who expressed interest in joining after it launched in July.
Reform has insisted that its live membership counter is accurate after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused the party of ‘fakery’.
A source said: ‘Every single number on the Reform counter is a paid-up member. It projects in real time and is never more than a few thousand up or down.’
A Labour spokesman said: ‘Our membership figures are published in our annual report. We do not give a running
