Two months after electing its first MPs, the party is planning a major overhaul of its conference operations in Birmingham, with Farage saying he would “give ownership of the party and the big decisions to the members”.

For the first time, members will be able to vote on policy proposals, including adopting a new constitution, which sets out the party’s rules and leadership responsibilities.

The Reform Party won 14% of the vote in July’s general election and has five MPs in parliament, including Farage.

Farage announced that he would return to lead the party during the campaign, something he could not do in a party with a more conventional structure, where leaders tend to be elected by members.

Under proposed new constitutional reforms in the UK, MPs would be able to dismiss Farage – or any other party leader – through a vote of no confidence.

A vote can be taken if 50% of all members of parliament write to the president requesting a motion of no confidence.

Reform MPs can also force a vote if 50 of them, or 50% of them, write to the president to request it. But this only applies if there are more than 100 reform-minded MPs in parliament, which is a very high number.

Zia Yusuf, chairman of Reform UK, said his party’s membership had increased by 15,000 since the election result.

He told the BBC that this “surge” had seen membership numbers rise to more than 80,000, as the party tries to build a dedicated activist base.

He said he would not be surprised if Reform outnumbered Conservatives in the coming months.

Yusuf, a millionaire former banker who was appointed president in July, said there had been “huge enthusiasm” for the party since the election.

“So what we need to do now is build infrastructure at the grassroots level so that enthusiasm can be channeled to the ballot box. »

The Conservative Party does not publish its membership numbers. But in the party’s most recent leadership election in 2021, more than 140,000 members voted in a turnout of 82%.

Attracting new members is part of the Reform Party’s plan to develop a more robust party and election campaign apparatus to compete with its political rivals.

Yusuf led the process of establishing hundreds of local reform branches across Britain and expanding its activist base.