Reform leader Nigel Farage said he knew something was wrong on Wednesday morning, when he spoke to Zia Yusuf, his party chair. “I felt, ‘He’s really had enough of all of this,’” Farage told GB News. “He did seem very, very disengaged.”
The Clacton MP was obviously trying to present Yusuf’s resignation – he had “10 minutes” warning of it – as the result of the pressure of a tough job and a social media campaign of “vile trolls”, rather than the strain of working with one N Farage.