{"id":277040,"date":"2025-06-06T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/why-did-zia-yusuf-resign-as-chairman-of-reform-uk-politics-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:35:34","slug":"why-did-zia-yusuf-resign-as-chairman-of-reform-uk-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=277040","title":{"rendered":"Why did Zia Yusuf resign as chairman of Reform UK? | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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About 15 minutes before Zia Yusuf’s shock resignation, a few senior Reform figures were warned something was due to happen.<\/p>\n

“It was a surprise, but we knew something was up,” a senior party source tells me.<\/p>\n

Politics latest: ‘Britain is being mugged,’ says Badenoch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alongside Nigel Farage<\/a><\/strong> and Richard Tice, Mr Yusuf has been an increasingly recognisable face in Reform UK<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That was no accident: he was being put forward for more media interviews and was seen by some, including Mr Farage, as the future of the party.<\/p>\n

So what went wrong? A senior source tells me Mr Yusuf “definitely was not pushed” and the situation was very different to the resignation of former Reform MP Rupert Lowe<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The source said relations between the party leader and Mr Yusuf are “absolutely fine” and the pair have been in contact.<\/p>\n

In his statement, the former chairman said the role was no longer “a good use of my time”<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Behind the scenes, Mr Yusuf did have critics. He angered some when the police became involved in an investigation into Mr Lowe.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mr Yusuf publicly distanced himself from the party’s new MP, Sarah Pochin, when she asked Sir Keir Starmer about a burka ban at Prime Minister’s Questions.<\/p>\n

Reform said the ban wasn’t party policy – and the chairman called it a “dumb” thing to ask in a post on X.<\/p>\n

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The source said that before Ms Pochin’s comments, Mr Yusuf was wavering: “He just got sick of all the abuse online.”<\/p>\n

They said the Reform UK leader was “genuinely saddened” by the former chairman’s resignation, and Mr Yusuf was “not pushed aside, he still had full control” amidst claims of a power struggle.<\/p>\n

Another source close to the party, however, said Mr Yusuf had committed several “politically inexperienced” missteps, and a row had been brewing over his social media post about Ms Pochin.<\/p>\n

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Asked about accusations that, as we saw with UKIP, Mr Farage can’t hold the top of his party together, a senior source said: “The Rupert Lowe thing was far bigger and that did not affect our polling or results in May.”<\/p>\n

They pointed to the rapid turnover of Conservative chairmen before they lost the election, and said the party was “not rushing” to appoint a new chairman.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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