Farage: Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win

At long last, the Tory leadership race concluded at the weekend after Kemi Badenoch was crowned victor on Saturday. But while the Conservatives finally have some semblance of stability with their newly-appointed leader and shadow cabinet, it’s not all good news for the blues. Nigel Farage has now claimed that since Badenoch’s weekend win, his party have seen a surge in membership figures. How very curious…

Quizzed on LBC today about whether Reform has seen a boost in sign-ups, Farage insisted:

Seeing it already. We’ve gone through 95,000 members this morning. So we’ve gone up 1,500 in the last three or four days. And these are Conservatives who are hanging on to see whether the party could change direction. For us as a party, it’s very good news.

Going on, the Clacton MP – interviewed while he attended a Donald Trump rally in the States – blasted Badenoch as a ‘continuity candidate’, before warning the new leader: ‘There are two parties within the Conservative Party.