The end of the Reform UK conference this year brings with it a healthy dose of reality. It needs funds and its members to be active if it wants to contest the next set of elections properly.
Its main rival, the Conservative Party, has a war chest that far outstrips its own. According to data released by the Electoral Commission in August, the Conservatives added £59,361,000 to its coffers last year.
This is in contrast to Reform UK’s £1,353,031 in the same timeframe.
Further, in the second quarter of this year, the Conservative Party took in £16,356,594 (April-June). This is far more than Reform UK, who saw its pot increase in the same period by £2,638,360.
The difference is enormous, but it’s an encouraging sign.
The addition of nearly twice as much as last year in the space of just three months is a boon for Zia Yusuf’s party (of which he’s Chairman), and a get-go for Nigel Farage to lead his troops into battle.
