By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2024-12-27 18:40:46 | Updated at 2024-12-28 10:56:07
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed that his party's membership is becoming increasingly youthful, following the introduction of a new £10 membership scheme for under-25s.
Speaking to GB News, Farage explained why he thinks young people are flocking to the party after it was revealed yesterday that Reform UK had overtaken Tory memberships.
Speaking to GB News, the Clacton MP said: "The average age is getting younger and younger and it's £25 to join the party.
"I introduced last week a new £10 membership for students, basically, you know, people under the age of 25. Many thousands of those are part of that big new surge that we've had.
"But here's the important thing, most people that are joining Reform or put names forward to be candidates have never been in politics at any point in their lives.
"They just see a country that is in economic decline, that is in societal decline. They see a country in which nothing works.
"They believe that Britain is broken and Britain needs Reform. These are mostly newbies that are getting involved in this because they're fearful, deeply fearful, for the future of our country."
Kemi Badenoch hit back at Farage
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Reform UK has now surpassed Conservative Party membership numbers, with its digital counter showing more than 131,680 members on Boxing Day.
This figure exceeds the Conservative Party's membership declared during their autumn leadership election, which had fallen from around 172,000 members in 2022.
Farage called it a "historic moment" on social media, stating: "The youngest political party in British politics has just overtaken the oldest political party in the world."
Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf declared: "History has been made today, as the centuries-long stranglehold on the centre-right of British politics by the Tories has finally been broken."
Kemi Badenoch has challenged Reform UK's membership claims
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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has challenged Reform UK's membership claims, accusing Farage of "fakery".
Badenoch claimed Reform had created a "fake clock coded to tick up automatically" on its website, adding that "Farage doesn't understand the digital age."
Farage responded by challenging Badenoch to let one of the Big Four accountancy firms audit both parties' memberships.
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