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       Nigel Farage said Zia Yusuf is a "loss" to Reform UK after he quit as the party's chairman. Mr Yusuf announced that he was resigning following a row that erupted over new Reform MP Sarah Pochin calling for a burka ban during PMQs.

       Speaking on GB News, the Reform UK leader said: “I’m sad that he’s going. I’m sad for the party because he leaves a gap and I am sad for him. I spoke to him yesterday morning and I thought ‘he’s had enough’. I could tell reading his intemperate tweet this morning that he wasn’t going to come into work tomorrow. From someone who has come from an ethnic minority and is intensely passionate about the party, that’s a loss.”

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       In an earlier post on X shorty after Mr Yusuf resigned, Mr Farage said: "I am genuinely sorry that Zia Yusuf has decided to stand down as Reform UK chairman.

       "As I said just last week, he was a huge factor in our success on May 1st and is an enormously talented person. Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game and Zia has clearly had enough. He is a loss to us and public life."

       Mr Yusuf said he had decided that working to get the insurgent party elected was no longer "a good use of my time".

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       He wrote on X: "11 months ago I became chairman of Reform. I’ve worked full time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30%, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results.

       "I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office."

       Mr Yusuf earlier branded Ms Pochin's PMQs question "dumb" as banning the face covering is not official Reform policy.

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       I am genuinely sorry that Zia Yusuf has decided to stand down as Reform UK Chairman.

       As I said just last week, he was a huge factor in our success on May 1st and is an enormously talented person.

       Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game and Zia has clearly had…

       — Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) June 5, 2025

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       He said: "Nothing to do with me. Had no idea about the question nor that it wasn’t policy. Busy with other stuff.

       "I do think it’s dumb for a party to ask the PM if they would do something the party itself wouldn’t do."

       Speaking during PMQs, Ms Pochin said: "Given the Prime Minister's desire to strengthen strategic alignment with our European neighbours, will he in the interests of public safety follow the lead of France, Denmark, Belgium and others and ban the burka?"