Nigel Farage accuses Kemi Badenoch of defaming Reform UK after she questioned the party's membership numbers.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has threatened to sue his Tory counterpart Kemi Badenoch if she fails to apologise for accusing the populist party of faking numbers that show Reform surpassed the Conservatives in paid members. The war of words broke out after Reform UK claimed on Boxing Day that it now has more members than the Tories. Using a live online ticker, the upstart party tracked the moment it had surpassed the latest declared membership numbers from the centuries-old Conservative Party.
After Reform passed the threshold of 131,680 members (the latest account of membership released by the Tories in November), recently-installed Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused the party of using an automated online ticker rather than reflecting actual sign-ups. “Manipulating your own supporters at Xmas eh, Nigel?. It’s not real. It’s a fake… coded to tick up automatically,” she Badenoch also claimed that the Tories had “gained thousands of new members” after she was selected as leader in November. However, the party has yet to release such figures to the public. Following the accusation of faking its membership tally, Reform opened its books on the independent Nation Builder platform, which tracks political party membership, to several British media outlets, including Sky News.that it “was able to verify that the number of memberships in Reform’s NationBuilder account matched the number presented on their on-site ticker.” Mr Farage has branded Badenoch “disgraceful” for the accusations and demanded that she apologise for the “intemperate outburst.” When asked if he planned on suing the Conservative leader for libel, the Reform leader said: “I’m going to take some action in the next couple of days. I’ve got to decide exactly what it is, but I’m certainly not going to take it lying down.” “I think it’s an absolutely outrageous thing for her to have said… know she’s got a very bad tempe
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