Zia Yusuf returning to Reform UK two days after quitting

Zia Yusuf, who resigned as Reform UK chairman on Thursday, is to go back to paintings for the birthday party in a brand new function.

Yusuf will lead what the birthday party calls its “Doge team” – which is modelled at the Department of Government Efficiency arrange via US President Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, Yusuf hand over the birthday party, announcing running to get the birthday party elected was once not “a good use of my time”, with out increasing additional.

On Saturday, Reform UK chief Nigel Farage advised the BBC that Yusuf will tackle a extra public function for the birthday party in a brand new function, showing extra continuously within the media.

He stated: “Zia regrets what he said and did the other day. It was a combination of 11 months hard work and exhaustion.”

In a submit on X, Yusuf stated he had gained numerous messages urging him to rethink leaving the birthday party and defined why he hand over two days in the past.

“After 11 months of working as a volunteer to build a political party from scratch, with barely a single day off, my tweet was a decision born of exhaustion,” he wrote.

Yusuf stated he got here into politics “out of belief that Nigel Farage was the man” to steer the rustic, including “I believe in these things more than ever”.

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