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Laura Kuenssberg<\/a> slammed Reform<\/a> UK this morning over Zia Yusuf\u2019s <\/a>dramatic resignation as the party chairman after it was reversed within 48 hours.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Yusuf abruptly quit on Thursday after arguing<\/a> that it was \u201cdumb<\/a>\u201d of a new Reform UK to ask the government if it intended to ban the burqa.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Then on Saturday, he announced he was returning to the party fold, leading the UK\u2019s DOGE<\/a> team \u2013 a reference to the Department of Government Efficiency which was headed up by Elon Musk<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite initially claiming he no longer believed working to get Reform into government was a \u201cgood use of my time,\u201d Yusuf later backtracked and said his resignation was \u201cborn out of exhaustion\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He added: \u201cI will continue to give all my time to the most important project of my life, getting a Reform government elected with Nigel as prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On the BBC\u2019s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,<\/a> the presenter suggested to Reform\u2019s deputy leader Richard Tice that this whole incident looked rather \u201cchaotic\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She said: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look very professional, does it, for your chair to be in \u2013 then out \u2013 then back in again?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe reality is Zia Yusuf has done a brilliant job,\u201d Tice replied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He said the chairman role had been \u201ctoo much for one person\u201d so the party is re-organising and Yusuf will be focusing on leading the Doge department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kuenssberg replied: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like to the public that you really know what you\u2019re doing if you have on one day the guy who was the chair of the party who says it\u2019s \u2018not worth his time\u2019 campaigning for a Reform government, and two days later, he\u2019s back in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cDoesn\u2019t it look chaotic?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cNo, we know exactly what we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re leading in the national polls,\u201d Tice said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pollsters at YouGov recently<\/a> put Reform in first place according to respondents\u2019 voting intentions, with an eight-point lead over Labour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tice also said Yusuf was exhausted because he had been working 24\/7 for the last 11 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cOne of the reasons Zia Yusuf left Reform was because of the racist abuse he had been receiving,\u201d Kuenssberg noted. \u201cBut this week Reform has been accused of trying to stir up some tensions itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the run-up to the crunch Scottish by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Reform leader Nigel Farage claimed<\/a> the Muslim Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar had said he would prioritise the Pakistani community. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Sarwar has not actually used those words.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n