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Reform is the 4th-largest party in Parliament. If the UK had a law requiring mouthpieces of foreign powers to register, that would affect Reform, which repeats Russian talking points verbatim. Better, such mouthpieces should be banned from office.
That should apply to those who repeat verbatim the positions of the Israeli governing party as well.
No they're not:
1st Labour 412
2nd Conservative 121
3rd Liberal Democrats 72
4th SNP 9
5th Sinn Fein 7
6th= Left-wing pro-Gaza Labour defectors (not a party as such but they are pretty well aligned) 5
6th= DUP 5
6th= Reform 5
9th= Greens 4
9th= Plaid Cymru 4
11th SDLP 2
12th= Alliance 1
12th= UUP 1
6th largest, with only five seats out of the Commons' total 650 compared to the SNP's nine and Sinn Féin's seven. I suppose you could argue that they are 5th largest since SF don't take their seats. They did get the third-highest vote share though, just got absolutely fucked by FPTP. And hey, if anyone had to get fucked by FPTP, I'm glad it was them. But the number of votes they got is pretty alarming.
Very similar vote counts as ukip ten years ago in many places