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Reform UK and Nigel Farage have been involved in a series of furious exchanges online with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

"Nigel Farage doesn’t understand the digital age," Kemi Badenoch said in response to the Reform UK leader's membership claim

A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day

Membership of Britain's upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party has overtaken that of the centre-right Conservative Party for the first time, the party said Thursday, as Tories disputed the numbers.

Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party, its leader Nigel Farage has said. A digital tracker on Reform's website shows its membership numbers have overtaken the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservatives earlier this year.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Nigel Farage of “fakery” over claims that Reform UK membership has surpassed the Conservatives, making it the second-largest political party in the UK. Ms Badenoch said Reform’s counter was “coded to tick up automatically”,

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shouted "We have done it" as the party supassed the Conservative membership this morning. The milestone marks a dramatic rise for Nigel Farage's party, which had just 40,