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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Zia Yusuf quits as Reform UK chair after row over new MP’s call for burqa ban

Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf smiling in front of a gathering of Reform politicians.
Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf in March. Yusuf said: ‘I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time.’ Photograph: Lucy North/PA Media

Zia Yusuf has resigned as the chair of Reform UK after suggesting it was “dumb” of the party’s newest MP to ask the prime minister if he would ban the burqa.

Yusuf, a donor and businessman, said he was resigning after less than a year in the job because he did not believe working to get a Reform government elected was a good use of his time.

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