Zia Yusuf has tonight resigned as chairman of Reform UK. In a statement, he posted on X that ‘I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office.’ He has worked for Reform for 11 months, during which time, he noted: ‘I have worked full time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30 per cent, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results.’
It comes on the same day that the businessman appeared to call his party’s newest MP, Sarah Pochin, ‘dumb’ for calling on Keir Starmer to ban the burqa – despite it not being official Reform party policy. Farage’s statement reacting to Yusuf’s resignation is more one of sorrow, than of anger. The Clacton MP wrote on X that he was ‘genuinely sorry’ that Yusuf has quit: ‘As I said just last week, he was a huge factor in our success on May 1st and is an enormously talented person.
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