Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC Neil Stevens has been reported to the police regarding allegations of overspending on his election campaign Bradley Gerrard Local Democracy Reporting Service Infighting in the Reform UK party in Devon has seen two county councillors and an election agent reported to police by a colleague over election expenses....
TalkTV host David Bull has been named as Reform UK’s new chairman, replacing Zia Yusuf who quit last week after clashing with colleagues over calls for a burka ban. A long-time ally of party leader Nigel Farage, 56-year-old Bull has held several roles in Reform and its predecessor the Brexit Party, but is best known...
Kate Whannel Political reporter PA Media Former Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has called a row over a social media post – in which he said it was “dumb” for one of his MPs to call for a burka ban – a “storm in a teacup”. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Yusuf said...
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted the party knows “exactly what it is doing” following a 48 hours in which its chairman Zia Yusuf resigned, before returning in a different role. On Thursday, Yusuf dramatically quit, saying in a social media post that trying to get the party elected was not “a good...
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PA Media Zia Yusuf, who resigned as Reform UK chairman on Thursday, is to return to work for the party in a new role. Yusuf will lead what the party calls its “Doge team” – which is modelled on the Department of Government Efficiency set up by President Trump. Earlier this week, Yusuf quit the...
Joshua Nevett Political reporter Reuters Reform UK’s success in the recent local elections has propelled many councillors with limited or no political experience into council chambers across England. While Reform UK’s rise was the big story of those elections, almost half of the councils up for grabs were not won outright by any single party....
Glenn Campbell BBC Scotland Political Editor PA Media A Reform UK billboard in Larkhall during the by-election campaign The Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election is a surprise win for Labour – giving the party a much-needed boost with less than a year until a full Scottish Parliament vote. But the other big winner was Reform...
The resignation of Zia Yusuf as Reform UK’s chairman matters because he was a central character in the stand out trend in British politics since the general election – the rise and rise Nigel Farage’s party. I first met this thirty something Muslim son of Sri Lankan immigrants, a former Conservative, when he was unveiled...
“David finally gets a knighthood… and Posh to be a Lady” writes The Sun in an exclusive, heralding the footballer’s supposed new title “Sir Becks”. It reports he will get the “gong next week” in the Birthday Honours List of King Charles III. The BBC has not verified the report. It’s “civil war” for Reform...
Farage said Yusuf was “a huge factor” in the party’s success in last month’s elections, when Reform won a by-election, two mayoral races and gained 677 new councillors. “Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game and Zia has clearly had enough. He is a loss to us and public life,” he wrote on...
Paul Seddon Political reporter Bloomberg Sarah Pochin became Reform UK’s fifth MP at a by-election last month Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf says it was “dumb” for the party’s newest MP to call on Sir Keir Starmer to ban the burka. Sarah Pochin – who won last month’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election – urged the...
The new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told the BBC she will do “whatever it takes” to reform the embattled legal appeals body. Dame Vera Baird KC said the CCRC seemed “incapable of learning from their mistakes” and she wanted to “root out” the culture causing them. She has has...
Bob Dale BBC News, South East Getty Images Zia Yusuf announced the first raft of council audits late on Sunday Reform has announced it will send its first Elon Musk-style Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) team into local authorities to assess “wasteful spending”. The party said the first council to be audited will be Kent...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has accused Nigel Farage of “fantasy” economics after the Reform UK leader set out a number of policies earlier this week. In a speech later this morning, Sir Keir is expected to liken Farage to former PM Liz Truss and say that Reform’s policies would lead to an increase in...