Mr Farage said he opened applications yesterday on the party's website for Britain's 'brightest and best' to run as his candidates for the next general election.
At a rally in Birmingham he said the party had opened its recruitment process for people to stand to be MPs with an eye to a vote later this year or in 2027.
Mr Farage will use a speech this afternoon to outline his plans for his frontbench team, telling party members to be ready to go to the polls by the end of the year.
If Peter Mandelson felt inundated this week, it was not for the first time. Rear Admiral Chris Parry, a Reform candidate, was at Oxford with the Dark Lord in the 1970s.