Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf Quits in Blow to Nigel Farage

Reform UK Zia Yusuf in Birmingham, UK, in 2024.

Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Zia Yusuf resigned as chairman of Reform UK after 11 months in the job, delivering a blow to its leader, Nigel Farage, who has promised to build and professionalize the insurgent party in a quest for power at the next general election.

In a post on X, Yusuf said he no longer believed “working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time.”