Reform hits 100,000 members

There was a business-like manner in Nigel Farage’s response to the news that net migration was more than 900,000 in 2023. Speaking this morning at a Mayfair press conference, Farage was almost flat in his reply on the ‘horrendous’ figures. He insisted that the Tories would ‘never be forgiven’ for presiding over a nine-fold increase in the ‘tens of thousands’ target promised by David Cameron in 2010. As for Labour, he was similarly withering about the government’s decision to hike the asylum budget by 36 per cent to £5.8 billion.

But after the business, came the pleasure. Farage took great delight in revealing that – after months of growing grassroots support – Reform has at last hit the 100,000 membership mark. That distinction was reserved for Andrea Jenkyns, the former Tory MP who today announced her defection from the Conservatives. She will now be the Reform candidate for the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty next May.