UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 day agoReform claims to now have more members than Labour
Reform UK reports more than 268,000 paid-up members, overtaking Labour to become the UK's largest political party by membership.
The number of Liberal Democrat party members has almost halved in the last five years, according to BBC analysis of available figures. The figure has fallen from just under 118,000 in 2020, when Sir Ed Davey became leader, to 60,000. That is despite the Lib Dems having their most successful general election ever last year in terms of seats won.
Late on Friday evening, Sultana said there had been baseless attacks on my character [that] are politically motivated, adding that she intended to hold to account those responsible for making them. To that end, I have this evening instructed specialist defamation lawyers.