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Reform claims to be largest political party
Western Morning News (Saturday)
|December 13, 2025
REFORM UK claims to have become the largest political party in Britain amid reports that leaked figures show a decrease in Labour's membership.
Internal figures seen by the Times newspaper reportedly show Labour's paid-up membership has fallen below 250,000.
Nigel Farage's party claims it has more than 268,700 members via a "live tracker" on its website.
Reform's official membership numbers do not however feature in their latest annual accounts, published on the Electoral Commission website in August.
Mr Farage said: "As we have suspected for some time, Reform has overtaken Labour to become the largest political party in British politics - a huge milestone on our journey to win the next election.
"The age of two-party politics is dead."
This story is from the December 13, 2025 edition of Western Morning News (Saturday).
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