Billy Kenber Politics investigations correspondent Phillip Kemp Political reporter Getty Images On a cloudy Tuesday in September last year, Gawain Towler, a veteran press chief for Nigel Farage’s various political parties, was working in Reform UK’s central London offices when his phone went calling him into a meeting. He was being given the sack. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...