Reform UK chair says party gained 46,000 members in last two weeks of December

Attendees during the Reform UK east of England conference at Chelmsford City Racecourse (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

More than 46,000 people joined Reform UK in the last two weeks of December, the party chairman told supporters amid a spat with the Tories over membership numbers.

Zia Yusuf asked party members at a Reform UK conference in Chelmsford, Essex – part of Kemi Badenoch’s North West Essex constituency – to give a “big Reform round of applause” to the Conservative leader.