Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch accused each other’s party of having fake membership numbers on Thursday after Reform UK claimed it had more members than the Conservatives for the first time.
奈杰尔•法拉奇(Nigel Farage)和凯米•巴德诺赫(Kemi Badenoch)周四指责对方政党的党员人数造假，此前英国改革党(Reform UK)声称其党员人数首次超过了英国保守党。
Reform said it had more than 135,000 members on Thursday, according to the party’s live online tally, surpassing the 131,860 Tory members at the time Badenoch was elected as leader of the opposition last month.
英国改革党周四称，根据该党的在线实时统计，其党员人数超过了13.5万，超过了上个月巴德诺赫当选反对党领袖时保守党的13.186万名党员。
“This is a big, historic moment,” Farage said on Thursday. “The youngest political party in British politics has just overtaken the oldest political party in the world. Reform UK are now the real opposition.”
法拉奇周四表示：“这是一个重大的历史性时刻。英国政坛最年轻的政党刚刚超越了世界上最古老的政党。英国改革党现在是真正的反对党。”
But Tory leader Badenoch claimed the Reform numbers were “not real” and that the online tally was “fake” and “coded to tick up automatically”.
但保守党领袖巴德诺赫声称改革党人数“不真实”，网上的统计数字是“假的”，是“自动上涨的编码”。