Zia Yusuf un-resigns from Reform just two days after he publicly quit

Chaos continues to reign within Reform HQ as their previous chairman, Zia Yusuf, who quit the party a couple of days ago whilst (correctly) saying that he no longer believed that “working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time”, is back in a Reform leadership role.

At least some party members apparently celebrated his departure, not least because he was apparently obnoxious to work with, to the degree that he proactively deterred people from donating to the cause. Which is, admittedly, the one worthy thing one can do in that party.

I suppose he must have had a restful Saturday. He blames his original resignation and accompanying tweet on being “a decision born of exhaustion” and he believes “more than ever” that Nigel Farage is “the man” to lead the country. Presumably his belief is strong enough to make the torrents of racial abuse he gets from supporters of his own party somewhere worth it.

However he doesn’t get to be chairman again. Instead he’s going back to the part of his role that was leading the so-called DOGE team.

The UK’s other political party are naturally criticizing this bizarre short-term U turn:

Labour described it as “humiliating hokey-cokey” and the Liberal Democrats called it a game of “musical chairman”.