Labour Party Membership Surges Past 500,000

LATEST FIGURES INDICATE membership of the Labour Party has now breached the 500,000 mark.

Martin Menear, Secretary of SE Cornwall Labour Party ecstatic about recent membership growth

An astonishing rise of around 128,000 in the fortnight since the EU referendum has increased membership to a whopping 515,000, making us one of the largest political parties in Europe.

In Cornwall. Martin Menear, Secretary of the South East Cornwall CLP said: “I can barely believe what is happening. There 49 new members on today’s report. That’s 140 since the referendum! Thank you all. Together we will be unstoppable!”.

Anecdotal evidence in the Tamar Valley area indicates that membership growth is still on the rise and the next set of figures will make very interesting reading.

The upsurge indicates success for the leader in turning Labour into a mass-membership party, moving ahead of Tony Blair’s peak of 405,000 members in 1997. More than double the 200,000 members the party had on general election day last year.

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