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Zia yusuf, who end as a chair From Reform UK on Thursday on Thursday, another role at Nigel Farage’s populist party will return on Thursday and accuses “exhaustion” for his decision to go away.
The 38-year-old former banker will return to exile, who is borne by little 48 hours, to lead what the party calls her “Doge” team, which is imitated by US President Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency”. The unit will try to eradicate inefficiencies in 10 councils through which the party took control in the local elections last month.
Farage, reform leader, said Yusuf would also take on a more public role in the collection of fundraising work and more frequent appearances in the media.
“Zia will continue to be an important part of the team that we build to combat and win the next parliamentary elections,” he said. Yusuf’s formal job title has not yet been decided.
In a post on the social media platform XX, Yusuf still believed that Farage should become the UK’s prime minister.
“After eleven months as a volunteer to build a political party from scratch, my tweet was a decision born out of exhaustion,” he said.
Yusuf, which was then appointed Give the young party £ 200,000Had tried to bring an element of professionalism into its ranks. But his efforts, including dismissal, triggered some colleagues criticized. He resigned on Thursday and said that the work for reforms was not “good use” of his time.
His resignation came just a few months after a public struggle between Farage and Rupert LoweBriefly one of the small group of MPs of Reform.
Before Yusuf resigned, Sarah Pochin, the latest MP of the reform, asked Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer to ban the burqa “in the interest of public security”. Yusuf, who is Muslim, said it was “stupid for a party to ask the prime minister whether they would do something that the party itself would not do”.
On Saturday, however, Yusuf told that Sunday times The newspaper he did not resign because he had strong views of the burqa, although he felt “blind” with Pochin’s question.
Instead, he said that, although he was generally “a bit restless”, he would probably support a burqa ban if he were a member.
The reform is expected to appoint a new chair in the coming days, as well as a deputy.
The party rises in the opinion polls and has overtaken both the ruling Labor Party and the opposition conservatives. In May it led both parties in local and mayoral elections, Win 677 council seats.
On Monday, Farage will give a speech in Port Talbot, South Wales, before the Senedd elections next year, where the reform will be severely cut off.
Yusuf said on Saturday that he was “flooded” of news from party members and supporters who encouraged him to rethink.
“I left my business interests, I volunteered voluntarily because I love my country and I think the best way to save it and convert it into a great converting is that Nigel is a prime minister,” he said.
“It became clear to me that I turned my back at that moment, and I didn’t want to. I realized that I had an important role. I said to Nigel and said I didn’t mind that I made a mistake. It was a function of exhaustion.”
Ellie Reeves, Labor’s Chair, described the changes in staff as a “humiliating Hokey Cokey”.
