Reform says it will go ahead with an advertising “blitz” after being “flooded” with a whopping £400,000 of donations in 24 hours alone after its 5,000-strong rally in Birmingham over the weekend. Reform says all that the bulk of that support is from small grassroots donors as its membership doubles from 30,000 to 60,000 over the course of the campaign so far. Meanwhile over an entire week the Tories only pocketed £375,000…

Social media advertising is being run from Farage’s account instead of Reform’s. Expect to see the party plastered over papers and websites (it already executed a Mail Online takeover) in the last few days of the campaign as the party hammers home its “we’re the real opposition” message. A strong feat for a startup party…