Is the Labour party that short of members?

John Smith and Tony Blair when leading the Labour party in opposition managed to increase individual membership of the Labour party to around 400,000 in 1996. Party membership started to drop soon after the first flush of realisation that this was a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" government. By 2006 Labour party membership had dropped to under 200,000 last year membership dropped by another 16,000 to around 182,000. A Guardian article from June 2007 reported that:

"Labour insiders suggest the decline has slowed markedly and even bottomed out, with the party now picking up 1,000 members a week during its deputy leadership election.

Membership has crept back up to 180,000 in the last three weeks."

If that report was true and the trend continued then today the Labour party would have just under 240,000 members. Somehow I doubt that they have that many members, but then I have not been able to find this figure, maybe someone else could?