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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has claimed the lead over the Conservatives for the first time in the UK, signaling a growing revival for the populist upstart, which has just five MPs in parliament.

Reformation The Tories had more than 132,000 members on Thursday morning, up from 131,860 when Ms Aden was elected opposition leader last month.

Judge He wanted to win the general election by defeating the Tories, who suffered against Labour, and said at a press conference this month that the Tory “brand is broken”.

“This is a big historic moment,” Farage said on Thursday. “The youngest political party in British politics has overtaken the oldest political parties in the world. Reform UK are now the real opposition.

Reform won five MPs in the election and received a further boost in early December when Farage met Elon Musk in the US. Farage was a tech billionaire, he said. With the intention of donating to reform.

Farage has tried to strengthen the reform campaign by expanding his membership in UK states where he already has some support, including Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Wales.

The party has said it plans to emulate the electoral tactics employed by the Liberal Democrats, which typically target small numbers of seats in local and national elections, promoting messaging and policy platforms to voters in those regions.

Reform is trying to gather information for the party in next year’s local elections and find thousands of supporters willing to become councillors.

The party hopes to win hundreds of council seats and at least one mayor in local elections in May.