{"id":162101,"date":"2025-06-06T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162101\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:10:11","slug":"sky-news-brought-to-abrupt-halt-for-major-breaking-news-announcement-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News brought to abrupt halt for major breaking news announcement | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

During tonight’s (Thursday, June 5) Sky News<\/a>, host Jonathan Samuels veered away from the planned broadcast to announce that Zia Yusuf, the Chairman of the political party Reform UK<\/a>, had stepped down from his position after less than a year in the role.<\/p>\n

Samuels directly told viewers: “Zia Yusuf has resigned as Chairman of Reform UK<\/a>, saying a short time ago in a post on X that working to get the party elected is no longer a good use of his time.”<\/p>\n

The broadcaster later interviewed political correspondent Serena Barker Singh on the show and began by telling her: “This news comes just a day after he was very critical of Reform’s newest MP [Sarah Pochin], who won that by-election<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

She replied: “It does. It feels like this party is experiencing chaos after chaos. The latest is that their Chairman has announced they are resigning in a pretty scathing tweet.”<\/p>\n

“We don’t know the full circumstances around his departure but it is certainly a shock resignation for a pretty senior frontline politician in the party,” she added. “The irony is, he was brought in to bring some credibility to Reform UK.”<\/p>\n

Yusuf’s post read: “11 months ago I became Chairman of Reform. I\u2019ve worked full-time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30%, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results.<\/p>\n

“I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office.”<\/p>\n

Party leader Nigel Farage<\/a> then posted on his X account to address Yusuf’s resignation. He stated: “I am genuinely sorry that Zia Yusuf has decided to stand down as Reform UK Chairman. As I said just last week, he was a huge factor in our success on May 1st and is an enormously talented person. Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game, and Zia has clearly had enough. He is a loss to us and public life.”<\/p>\n

His resignation comes after a row in which he described a question to the Prime Minister about banning burkas from Reform MP Sarah Pochin as “dumb”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During tonight’s (Thursday, June 5) Sky News, host Jonathan Samuels veered away from the planned broadcast to announce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[1500,68238,77,384,386,29825,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-162101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-chairman-resignation","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-nigel-farage","12":"tag-reform-uk","13":"tag-sky-news","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634701823918479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}