Reform UK says it is now the largest political party in Britain and has overtaken Labour, which has reportedly seen its membership fall below 250,000.

Nigel Farage’s party says it has more than 268,000 members on the live tracker displayed on its website.

Farage said: “As we have suspected for some time, Reform has overtaken Labour to become the largest political party in British politics – a huge milestone on our journey to win the next election. The age of two-party politics is dead.”

Meanwhile, the Times reported that, according to internal figures, the Labour party’s paid-up membership had fallen below 250,000.

Mainstream , the centre-left group backed by Andy Burnham, said the Labour’s “plummeting membership” showed that its “top-down model has failed”.

Its interim council sai

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