FORMER PARTY CHAIR ANNOUNCES RETURN TO REFORM UK – Zia Yusuf rejoins two days after stepping down
Zia Yusuf said on Saturday (June 7) he was taking on a new role at Reform UK, two days after quitting as chair of the right-wing populist party.
Yusuf wrote in a post on X that “Reform has come a long way since I was appointed Chairman, and has moved from ‘startup’ to ‘scaleup’,”
Yusuf resigned abruptly from his role as chairman at the right-wing party on Thursday (June 5) following a row with its newest lawmaker, Sarah Pochin.
Reform, led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, has overtaken Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in opinion polls as Britain’s most popular political party, less than a year after it won five parliamentary seats at a national election.
Yusuf, a businessman, was made Reform’s chairman last year, as Farage went on a drive to professionalise the party.
Britain and India on Saturday (June 7) discussed expanding their “counter-terrorism” collaboration following recent fighting between India and Pakistan, Britain’s foreign minister told Reuters after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
