Reform UK has hit 230,000 members in a milestone for Nigel Farage's party. It comes after the party gained more than 600 seats and took control of 10 local authorities in last week's local elections.

Britain's right-wing Reform UK party won a vacant parliamentary seat, two mayoralties and control of several councils on Friday in early results from elections that its leader Nigel Farage said proved it was now the real opposition.