Chair of Reform UK Richard Tice sparked a heated row with GB News presenter Andrew Pierce after being grilled on how many members the political party has.

This comes as Nigel Farage launched his General Election campaign on Tuesday in Clacton, with Tice agreeing to step down as leader.

Addressing the change on GB News, Tice was questioned by Andrew on the inner workings of the party and claimed it is a "company which Nigel Farage owns 53 per cent of".

Andrew put the question to Tice, stating: "You don't work for a political party, it's a company. What other political party can have a leadership change on the say so of one person?

Richard Tice and Andrew Pierce came to blows when he was questioned on Reform's members

"53 per cent of Reform UK is owned by Nigel Farage. No other political party in Europe operates like Reform UK."

When pressed on whether Tice is "comfortable" with Nigel "owning Reform" as well as being leader, Tice hit back: "I'm thrilled to bits!"

Andrew became frustrated as he began to grill Tice , asking him "how many councils" and "how many members" Reform has.

Unable to answer the question, Tice repeatedly dodged Andrew as he swiped: "Let's answer questions. You won't answer basic questions!"

Andrew Pierce grilled Richard Tice 19 times on how many members the political party has

Tice then vaguely claimed: "We've got tens of thousands. Since Monday we've had over 6000."

Remaining unsatisfied with Tice's answer, Andrew grilled Tice again, fuming: "How many members have you got? You won't tell us. It is not a proper democratic, transparent political party.

"It is a company, listed at Companies House, run by one man who's the shareholder."

Tice kept a staunch defence of Reform, hitting back at Andrew's "inaccuracies". He raged: "Andrew, I'm sorry to say, if you're going to be a serious journalist, you've got to be accurate in what you write. It's hysterical! It's like a comic piece."

Bev Turner then interjected the row and asked Tice whether he believes it "matters to the voting public" if Reform is a company or political party.

Richard Tice hit back at Andrew and accused him of making inaccurate claims about Reform

Tice claimed: "Not at all, it makes no difference at all. It's only the terrified Tories who are struggling with the concept that actually we've got real conservative values, we've got the people on our side, millions of people who say I want another choice."