Nigel Farage claims Reform is now UK’s greatest celebration as Labour membership plummets | EUROtoday

Nigel Farage has claimed that Reform UK is now Britain’s greatest political celebration after an inside leak recommended that Labour has misplaced 100,000 members.

According to The Timesthe paid up membership of the Labour Party has dropped to under 250,000 that means the celebration has misplaced one individual each seven minutes since successful the election 18 months in the past.

With Reform formally on 268,631 paid-up members, it suggests Mr Farage’s celebration is the most important within the UK in yet one more blow for Sir Keir Starmer.

Mr Farage mentioned: “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.”

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It comes as Britain’s main polling guru Sir John Curtice recommended that whereas Reform’s assist could have plateaued following a major surge over the course of this 12 months, itrepresents the most important assault on the two-party system because the Second World War.

Sir John advised The Independent: “The Reform incursion, in terms of length of time being ahead of the polls, is now longer than that of the Liberal SDP Alliance in late 1981-82.”

But he added: “I think my view for a long time has been that barring exceptional circumstances for Reform, 30 per cent or just a little bit above, seems to be the plateau, because they are very, very much pursuing a niche market.

“They are running at around 50 per cent amongst those people who voted for Brexit, but no more than about 40 per cent of the population is in favour of Brexit these days.

“You’re never going to get all of that market. And they’ve just been basically hardly moving since the beginning of May. It’s very, very stable.”

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He famous that whereas Reform assist “is heavily dependent on Farage”, efforts to “dig the dirt on him” are impacting Reform on the polls.

In specific, he warned that claims Mr Farage made racist remarks as a schoolboy have had little influence on Reform votes, even when it does on left-wing ones who already dislike him.

However, the problem of racism has seen a crack in Reform.

In an issue for Mr Farage, the person who is anticipated to be Reform’s chief in Scotland distanced himself from his feedback on English talking in Glasgow.

On a current go to to Scotland’s greatest metropolis, Mr Farage described the truth that 29 per cent of youngsters spoke English as a second language as “cultural smashing of Glasgow”.

Scottish SNP First Minister John Swinney described the remark as “racist”.

And talking on BBC Question TimeLord Offord, who just lately defected to Reform from the Tories and is extensively anticipated to develop into the chief of the celebration in Scotland, mentioned “he wouldn’t use that type of language”.

A Labour Party spokesperson mentioned: “Our membership figures are published in our annual report. We do not give a running commentary on them throughout the year.”