Zia Yusuf quits as Reform UK chair after row over new MP’s call for burqa ban

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/05/zia-yusuf-quits-as-chair-of-reform-uk-after-new-mp-burqa-ban-row

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  2. How telling that Chris Mason breaking the news on the BBC mentioned he’d just got off the phone after talking to Farage.

    The client journalist was sure to get Farage’s view across asap.

  3. This is disappointing because a good way to get under reform voters’ skins and undermine their cause was the fact that Nigel was under the influence of their sworn enemy

  4. How anyone sees this lot as a serious party is beyond me.

    Despite being a dictatorship party they seem to be in a constant state of infighting and disagreement without direction or material policy

  6. man who joined leopard eating face party surprised by leopard eating face…more at ten

  9. I’d imagine that Farage is furious with his new Runcorn MP, who, by saying the quiet stuff out loud, has cost him and Reform UK millions! 🤣🤣

  11. Hopefully they work it out. I really like the chemistry between Yusuf and Nigel. I thought it to be balanced, daring and welcomed (at least by me).

  12. What’s at play here, I think, is that Reform have been the political equivalent of a vanity publisher.

    Got some crackpot theory? Give us 50 grand, and we’ll make it policy!

    This has been Farage’s genius, and unfortunately for almost everyone, the only person who benefits is himself.

    It will also lead to the fracturing of the party long before a General Election.

    Reform is useless to him now, so I suspect Farage will start some other “true believer” type party before long to grift even harder, so put your hands in your pockets, mugs.

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